Katie Leclerc Quotes
My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.
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I always watch the work I do.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.
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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
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We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.
