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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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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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I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
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Dancing is my obsession. My life.
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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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 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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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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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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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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People dance at any age.
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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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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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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
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I cannot stand authority.
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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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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
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Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
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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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I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
Mikhail Baryshnikov