Misty Copeland Quotes - Page 2

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• Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.

  Misty Copeland

  Four, Pirouettes, Energy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

  Misty Copeland

  Black And White, Dancer, Becoming

  Source: collider.com

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• I remind myself everyday just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I'm just trying to take my life one day at a time.

  Misty Copeland

  Everyday, Trying, One Day

  Source: littletownshoes.me

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• It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

  Misty Copeland

  Strong, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity.

  Misty Copeland

  Responsibility, Positivity, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.

  Misty Copeland

  Long, Feel Good, Want

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

  Misty Copeland

  Moving, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: bknation.org

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• I don't believe in dieting, I don't believe in having certain moments in your life where you're healthy and then moments when you're like, "I'm going to eat whatever I want." It's just finding what works for your body and always eating healthy.

  Misty Copeland

  Believe, Healthy, Dieting

  Source: bknation.org

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• 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 aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, People, Fake

  Source: collider.com

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• To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.

  Misty Copeland

  Creativity, Artist, Special

  Source: bknation.org

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• I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

  Misty Copeland

  Dancer, Ballet, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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 I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.

  Misty Copeland

  Art, Book, Reading

  Source: collider.com

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• My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

  Misty Copeland

  Goal, Dancer, Principal

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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 see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

  Misty Copeland

  People, Athletic, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I shouldn't even be wearing a tutu. I don't have the right legs, my muscles are too big.

  Misty Copeland

  Legs, Bigs, Muscles

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

  Misty Copeland

  Forever, Ballet, Were Meant To Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey.

  Misty Copeland

  Journey, Ravens, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.

  Misty Copeland

  Athlete, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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, on and off the stage.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Ballet, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

  Misty Copeland

  Basketball, Class, Clothes

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.

  Misty Copeland

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  "Misty Copeland On Broadening 'Beauty' And Being Black In Ballet". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 9, 2014.

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• 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 that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.

  Misty Copeland

  Children, Ballet, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 [Corella] were the first people I ever saw dance live.

  Misty Copeland

  Angel, People, Video

  Source: collider.com

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• That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Example, World

  Source: bknation.org

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• When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's just [an] idea that because I'm black I just look a certain way.

  Misty Copeland

  Ideas, People, Black

  Source: www.wbur.org

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