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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.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
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.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
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.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
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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.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
Quote by -Mikhail Baryshnikov