Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DancePhotographyLooksNeverStudio

Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.

Jimmy Napes

WalkSongThinkingYouBackCreate

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

Jim Morrison

PeopleFeelUncomfortableUpShake

I would put tiebreakers in the fifth set, no question about it.

John McEnroe

QuestionWouldSetAboutPutFifth

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Anna Julia Cooper

HeartAlwaysPreyCowardsPretty

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

Michael Connelly

WorkMoneyChoicesStoryBloodMade

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Robert Fulghum

WordsWillBreakBonesHeartsOur

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

LifeWomenAgeTimeCoolThink

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

Rowan Atkinson

HomeEyesYouWatchingAudienceSee

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis Auchincloss

LifePerfectionFictionWell

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Jean de la Bruyere

CharacterPeopleCareYouKnowHigh

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

Jasper Carrott

BestWorldDrummerBeatlesEvenHe

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Dominic Monaghan

TravelEnjoyPackingElementsPart

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