Catherine DeVrye Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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There are always more choices than you think.
