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Inspirational Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
- The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
- Dancing is my obsession. My life.
- I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
- In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
- Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
- I cannot stand authority.
- I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
- I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
- I read Russian literature a lot.
- In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
- Nobody is born a dancer.
- Running a company is pretty demanding.
- The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
- People dance at any age.
- Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
- Working is living to me.
- It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
- To walk across the street is a risk.
- I - you know, I'm not an actor.
- I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
- No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
- I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
- You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento