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Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

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Akshay Vasu

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."

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Akshay Vasu

"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."

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Akshay Vasu

"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."

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Akshay Vasu

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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Akshay Vasu

"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."

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Akshay Vasu

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

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Akshay Vasu

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Akshay Vasu

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Akshay Vasu

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

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

Family

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"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."

Friendship

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people."

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

Life

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

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"To walk across the street is a risk."

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I am not the first straight dancer or the last."

First

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Dancing is my obsession. My life."

Life

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

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"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."

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