Misty Copeland Quotes

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• Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in. Ballet
• Ballet.something pure in this crazy world Ballet
• You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation Find
• The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think. Fixed
• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't… Ballerina
• I want to share the ballet world with everyone. Ballet
• Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something… Always Searching
• Everything I was being shown was ABT, so I grew up watching these videos of [Mikhail] Baryshnikov, Gelsey [Kirkland] and Paloma [Herrera]. Paloma and Angel… Angel
• Just to get into a company like ABT is a dream come true, but to have all of these opportunities on top of it, I… All
• I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today,… Ballet
• I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out… Careful
• To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've… Advanced
• Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what… Ballet
• The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything… Look
• The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not… Addressed
• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider… Dancer
• Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it,… Add
• For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but… Any
• I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of… Articulate
• When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and… Athletic

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