American - Dancer | January 27, 1948 -
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.
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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.
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No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.
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The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.
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I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.
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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.
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My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
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Working is living to me.
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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.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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