Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

Joe Sacco

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage

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I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me.

Jerry O'Connell

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Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

Robert J. Shiller

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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch

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I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

Steven Blum

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I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.

Roger Morris

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Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there's not a lot of background.

Ron Cephas Jones

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Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

Ruth B

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This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Mike Weir

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

Joy Behar

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Jonathan Kozol

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