Misty Copeland Quotes
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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.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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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.
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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.
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If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
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I get very angry when I'm hungry and there isn't time for lunch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.
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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
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I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.
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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
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We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
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The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.
