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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.

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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
Performing
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American
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Ballets
Classical
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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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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 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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I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would love to be Odette in Swan Lake one day. I think that would be the ultimate role.
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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 never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.
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I don't think every African-American or Latino have the same body type, but, yes, that's been one of the excuses ... saying that African-Americans are too muscular or just aren't lean enough. Usually they say, Oh, they have flat feet so they just don't have the flexibility that it takes to create the line in a point shoe.
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I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.
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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.
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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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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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I definitely like to be natural and more relaxed and not wear a lot of makeup.
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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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I shouldn't even be wearing a tutu. I don't have the right legs, my muscles are too big.
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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.
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But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.
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I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.
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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.
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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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Ballet.something pure in this crazy world
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