#ss

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#astaire #been #business #dancer #fred

and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#ballet #every #given #important #me

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#feel #i #i feel #life #lot

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#come #does #fear #jihad #millions

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. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#brooklyn #communities #friends #hang #i

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ↗

— Mark Twain

#full #good #line #prophesy #risks

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life. ↗

— Shania Twain

#always #best #desperate #dictate #feel

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#close #each #everyday #friends #get