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Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

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Misty Copeland
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 10
Actor
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Ballet Dancer
Dancer
Kansas City
Missouri
Misty Danielle Copeland
Crazy
Something
World
Ballet
Pure

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I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.
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But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.
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I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.
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I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.
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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.
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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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My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.
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I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.
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I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.
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I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.
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I definitely like to be natural and more relaxed and not wear a lot of makeup.
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I shouldn't even be wearing a tutu. I don't have the right legs, my muscles are too big.
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I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.
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Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.
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