Misty Copeland Quotes

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

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• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Mom

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Food

• I get very angry when I'm hungry and there isn't time for lunch.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Time
  • Angry

• Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.

  

  Brian Grazer

• Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.

  

  Cindy Crawford

• We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Golf

• An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Community
  • Quality

• I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

  

  Amy Adams

• I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Study

• I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Weekend

• Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Different

• Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • People
  • God
  • Religious

• People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Mother
  • Singing

• We are little animals walking on the ground, we have a certain life time, we are acting and interacting with different people, and we are trying to build things, but we are just some sort of virus compared to the entire sky. You always have to remember that the moon, the earth, the sun, they are like the real universal objects. We are just passing by, and it makes life more beautiful to think that way. More relaxing to think that way, that nothing is really important, because you give yourself much more confidence and you forgive yourself more things when you think about that.

  

  Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.

  

  David Biespiel
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Argument

• I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Small
  • Year
  • Step

• I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Time
  • Song
  • Mood

• The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Thinking
  • Fixed
  • Misty