Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a p

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. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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People of art should never get married and have children, because its a selfish experience. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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