Valorie Curry Quotes
Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.
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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
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In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...
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Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
