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

• If the fraud charges are proven, fraud order...is issued, a promoter can receive no funds through the mail..., shut off. All mail sent to him is returned to the sender marked 'Fraudulent'.

  

  J. Edward Day

• The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions further and further from thermodynamical equilibrium, characterized by decreasing specific entropy and increasingly dense free-energy flows, accessed and processed by more and more complex social, economic, and political structures.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Equilibrium
  • Regions
  • Information technology

• Genesis means the beginning. But I put the A instead of the E because I didn't wanna be criticized in church and nothing like that. And it means the beginning, but in my city, I'm the only person that's on the West Coast that has a different sound, so I was thinking to myself, 'This the beginning of a new sound, a new person.'

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • City

• The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Easier
  • Restriction

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

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Thinking
  • Fixed
  • Misty