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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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Donna Grant

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Donna Grant

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Donna Grant

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."

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Donna Grant

"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."

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Donna Grant

"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."

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Donna Grant

"I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."

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Donna Grant

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

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Donna Grant

"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

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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."

Office

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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."

Mother

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

Work

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

Success

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Working is living to me."

Living

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

Work

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

People

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company."

Dance

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