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“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. Then you arrive in the States and it is $150 to go to an opera. Ridiculous. We have so much young talent on the streets, but because everything is commercial they finally drift away from their dream of their life.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Daily Telegraph, 09/02/2004.

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

“The minute plane set down, the minute I stepped again on Latvian ground, I realized this was never my home. My heart didn't even skip one beat.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist".

“You ask me what's happened in my life, why and how I did this and that. And I think and tell, but it's never true story, because everything is so much more complicated, and also I can't even remember how things happened. Whole process is boring. Also false, but mostly boring.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist" by Joan Acoccella, in The New Yorker (January 19, 1998); reprinted in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker https://books.google.com/books?id=KDhjzXAjyUMC&pg=PA62 (2000), edited by David Remnick, p. 62.

“The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

In an interview with Barbara Isenberg, " To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-baryshnikov30-2009aug30-story.html", Los Angeles Times, 30 August 2009

“Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know, human beings are extraordinary powerful survivors. My mother commit suicide. I was lucky it was not in front of me. O. K.? Which is truth, and Father was confused, and we never had any relationship, serious relationship. I never knew my father, in a way. But what? It's made me different? No, I mean. I blame for every fuckups in my life my parents? No. [Pause] I got lucky. I fell in love with dance.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist", reprinted in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker https://books.google.com/books?id=KDhjzXAjyUMC&pg=PA66, p. 66.

“You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB… Horrifying.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Statement in television interview: Larry King (May 5, 2002). " Interview with Mikhail Baryshnikov http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/05/lklw.00.html", Larry King Weekend, CNN.