Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
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I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
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I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
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You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
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He Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
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Dancing is my obsession. My life.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
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I cannot stand authority.
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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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People dance at any age.
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I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
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We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.