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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way."

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
Explore more quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

"To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing."

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."

"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."

"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."
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