Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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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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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 think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
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I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
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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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He Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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People dance at any age.
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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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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
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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 read Russian literature a lot.
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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 am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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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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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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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
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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.