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" If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious. "
Misty Copeland
Where
Situation
I Am
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" I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music. "
Misty Copeland
Dance
Work
Music
" Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down. "
Misty Copeland
People
Support
Down
" What you put into your body is just as important as how hard you dance. I believe with the right training and an understanding of how to take care of your body, you can mold it to be whatever you want it to be. "
Misty Copeland
Dance
Believe
Training
" Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance. "
Misty Copeland
Lake
Character
Energy
" Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance. "
Misty Copeland
Theatre
American
Perseverance
" I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you. "
Misty Copeland
Kind
You
Want
" When I was a little girl, I was incredibly shy. My hope was to blend in, to fit in, to not be noticed in any significant way. I was deeply insecure and unsure of myself. "
Misty Copeland
Way
Girl
Hope
" I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them. "
Misty Copeland
Learn
People
Woman
" It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives and we're not a part of that world. "
Misty Copeland
Like
Ballet
Feel
" Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. "
Misty Copeland
Support
Strong
Beautiful
" Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself. "
Misty Copeland
Myself
Ballet
Like
" I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world. "
Misty Copeland
World
Feel
Night
" It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me. "
Misty Copeland
Look
Art
You
" I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s. "
Misty Copeland
Own
Late Bloomer
Late
" I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice. "
Misty Copeland
Day
Work
Love
" Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself. "
Misty Copeland
Time
Myself
Stage
" I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible. "
Misty Copeland
Dreams
Think
Thinking
" I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it's something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences. "
Misty Copeland
Art
Woman
Girl
" When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States. "
Misty Copeland
American
New York
Theatre
" I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest that has exploded for such an incredible art form that I will forever be grateful to! "
Misty Copeland
Grateful
Beautiful
Art
" I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal. "
Misty Copeland
Day
Wake Up
Train
" I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose. "
Misty Copeland
Purpose
Feel
Awareness
" In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance. "
Misty Copeland
Mirror
Music
Myself
" Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this. "
Misty Copeland
Me
Meant To Be
Ballet
" My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is. "
Misty Copeland
Childhood
I Am
Story
" My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it. "
Misty Copeland
Me
Money
Clothes
" 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. I didn't know anything about it. "
Misty Copeland
Gym
Know
Trying
" Finding great training, I think, is number one. I did a lot of research and found really great teachers, and it just takes - I took a year off from school and did independent studies so that I could devote all of my time to it. But I think that training is the key, definitely, and it's not a sport. "
Misty Copeland
Time
Great
Think
" All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way. "
Misty Copeland
Self
Best
You
" I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my existence throughout my family experiences at home of just kind of blending in in the background through my other siblings, which was easy to do. "
Misty Copeland
Home
Want
Easy