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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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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