Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 27, 1948

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The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

Joe Thomas

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It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

Anderson East

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I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.

Andra Day

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That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

Robert Jay Lifton

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I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

Stella McCartney

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The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

Stacey Dash

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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Robert Duvall

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You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

Roy Rogers

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A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

Mickey Gilley

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When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Lou Gehrig

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I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.

Jason Momoa

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We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

Chris Hardwick

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