"Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'"

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Source : "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

Katie Leclerc

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“Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.”
“It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.”
“Heâ€™d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.”
“When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”
“If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.”
“Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.”

Source : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books
“Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.”
“If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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