Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in … - Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

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I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

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He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

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