Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
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Nobody is born a dancer.
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Dancing is my obsession. My life.
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What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
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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 think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
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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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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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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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Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
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Working is living to me.
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
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Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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I read Russian literature a lot.
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I - you know, I'm not an actor.
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
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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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To walk across the street is a risk.