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		With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.
	
	  Heather Watts Heather Watts
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		When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".
	
	  Elizabeth Crook Elizabeth Crook
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		A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
	
	  Alicia Markova Alicia Markova
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		To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.
	
	  Jennifer Garner Jennifer Garner
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		I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.
	
	  Kató Lomb Kató Lomb
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		Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.
	
	  Misty Copeland Misty Copeland