b"INTERVIEWER: I feel like it's taught me to be confident, to Q: In your book Life inaccept and love who I am. For the first time, I felt beautiful when I entered the ballet world. Before ballet I was just this scrawny Motion, you write thatlittle girl with big feet and a little head, and ballet teaches manyI went into the ballet world and it was like, Wow, all of these characteristics, all of these things. It teachesthings about you, they're perfect for ballet, discipline. It teachesand you're beautiful. I never had that type of confidence, and I feel like it's just made poise. What else doesme into an incredible, caring, giving, and it teach? nurturing person.INTERVIEWER: COPELAND:Q: You say ballet isnt just A: Again, I grew up in a single-parent home, andabout strength. It isnt I never really connected with my school. I was extremely shy. I never really spoke. I should have been much more developed at 13 yearsjust about ability. You old, and I feel like the missing link was dance.must look the part. I feel like it awakened so many things and my cognitive skills in my brain that I didn't haveHow so?outside of being exposed to the arts. SP G021091 9 23SRPIRNIN G2 23"