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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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Misty Copeland
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 10
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Ballet Dancer
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Kansas City
Missouri
Misty Danielle Copeland
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Ballet.something pure in this crazy world
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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 never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.
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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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My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.
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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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I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.
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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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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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I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!
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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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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 to me, until I was older and could look back on it.
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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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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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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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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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But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.
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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 think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.
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Without my mentors there is no Misty.
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