Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

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• I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Fitness, Yoga, Training

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• When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Moving, Body, Minutes

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• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Attitude, People, Choices

  "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.

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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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  People, Interesting, Ballet

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• No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dancer, Want, Born

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Injury, Smarter

  "To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.latimes.com. August 30, 2009.

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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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  Art, People, Divinity

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• It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Simplicity, Legs

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• I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

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  Thinking, Literature, World

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• There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

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  Dance, Artist, Order

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• Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Fun, Block, Uptown

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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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  Motivational, Dance, Business

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• Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

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  Art, Momentum, Fleeting

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• When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Signatures, Looks

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• Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

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  Meaningful, Husband, Father

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• The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet, Steps

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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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  Memories, Mind, Age

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• Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Sacrifice, Fields

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• Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Form, Revealing

  "Baryshnikov shows his dance photography in Miami". Interview with Jennifer Kay, www.boston.com. February 23, 2012.

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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.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Hate, Thinking, Giving

  "Astaire, the biography". Book by Tim Satchell, 1987.

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• I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dancer, Lasts, Firsts

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• I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, People, Recipes

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• Working is living to me.

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