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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

People

Friends

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life

People

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

To walk across the street is a risk.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Risk

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Waiting

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

People

Career

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Work

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Friends

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Working is living to me.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Living

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Office

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