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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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. Its a Catch-22 kind of thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves. – Curt Schilling

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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

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