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Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV. So, I just used those avenues I found available right in my milieu to express what was inside of me. Misty Copeland

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Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet. Misty Copeland

Like Ballet Die Just Hold Might

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it's cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me. Misty Copeland

It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again. Natalia Makarova

Life Would Could Again If I Could Hard Hard Life

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. Natalia Makarova

Time Tomorrow Back Lies Boring Excitement Look

Even the ears must dance. Natalia Makarova

Dance Ears Must Even

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult. Natalia Makarova

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself. Natalia Makarova

Myself Knowledge Secrets Keep

I think often that God is guiding me. Natalia Makarova

God Me Think Guiding Often

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world. Natalia Makarova

Music World Reading Ballet Inner Inner World

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling. Natalia Makarova

I want to be free... free to develop my art. Natalia Makarova

Art Free Develop Want

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. Natalia Makarova

Criticism Difficult Easily Take Personalities English

Classical ballet will never die. Ninette de Valois

Will Classical Never Ballet Die

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful. Ninette de Valois

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Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. Ninette de Valois

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. Ninette de Valois

Good First Important Carefully Other Everything Out Bad Throw Most First Of All Learn Times Survived The Most Important Watch

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. Ninette de Valois

You Dance Classical Like Sopranos Then Applied

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps. Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. Ninette de Valois

Best Generation Bits Take Any Just Wants Whole Hardly Last

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