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Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great People Start You Career Young

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

Time School Short Leap Film Making

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Time Behavior Human Behavior Human

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

Moment Waiting Doing You Play Run

I couldn't wait to be an adult woman, and I'm glad I felt that way as a kid because, when I grew up, I realised I live in a world where the female form is really disrespected, and society is often trying to wrestle the female form into a shape that looks more like a young boy.

Live Woman Wait World Society Young

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Children Great Drive Story You Bad

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

Technology Heart Mind Relationships

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

People Language Horizon Never Dogs

To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

Business Energy Wall Street Oil Up

I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

Good Food Fake Looks New Nice

Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.

Keep Going Yourself Disappointment Up

I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'

People Me You Back Say Accept

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

Me Singing Energy Lot Gives

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