Misty Copeland Quotes

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• Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

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  Perseverance, Powerful, Hard Work

  Source: bknation.org

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• You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

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  Stay Strong, Motivation, Ballet

  "Misty Copeland, Chelsea Clinton, and other successful people share the advice they'd give their younger selves" by Elisa Jackson and Levo League, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2015.

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• You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

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  Dream, Where You Come, Matter

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• The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

  Misty Copeland

  Advice, Special, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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 let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Hair, Rocks

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• The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Path, Fixed

  "Misty Copeland, Chelsea Clinton, and other successful people share the advice they'd give their younger selves" by Elisa Jackson and Levo League, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2015.

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• I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

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  Done, Rooms, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

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  Thinking, Dancer, Ballet

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

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  Opportunity, Trying, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• 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, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.

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  Art, Children, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

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  Believe, Artist, Dancer

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• Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

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  Teacher, School, Ballet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

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  Crazy, Ballet, World

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• I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.

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  Complacent, Knows

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• I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Sibling

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• 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 and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

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  Thinking, Keys, Training

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field.

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  Powerful, Men, Ballet

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

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  Feet, Muscles, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• Different mentors throughout my life have supported and guided me to remember that I do have the strength, courage and talent to do whatever I want to do.

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  Mentor, Want, Different

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• I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

  Misty Copeland

  Memories, Example, Want

  Source: bknation.org

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• Take advantage of the resources around you and the relationships you build!

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  Advantage, Resources

  Source: littletownshoes.me

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• 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 our education.

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  Thinking, Ballet, Insane

  Source: collider.com

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