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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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"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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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

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A.E. Samaan

"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."

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A.E. Samaan

"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."

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A.E. Samaan

"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"

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

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

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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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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 think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

Art

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."

Art

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

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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."

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