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Daily Inspiration Quote by Caroline Dhavernas

"I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that"

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There is a particular kind of candor actors deploy when they don’t want a performance to be mistaken for a personal manifesto, and Caroline Dhavernas is working that line with care here. She opens by disclosing distance from religion, not as a provocative flex but as a credibility move: she’s not arriving with a ready-made cosmology. That small disavowal clears space for the more interesting admission that the material has started to tug at her anyway. Fate, in this framing, isn’t a belief system so much as an occupational hazard of storytelling: once you spend enough time inside a character’s patterns, coincidences start to feel like design.

The hedging is the point. “Not a hardcore fate fan” is gently comic phrasing that keeps the subject from getting grandiose; it’s the language of someone wary of sounding mystical, especially in an industry that can turn “I felt it in my bones” into a marketing hook. When she says she was “very careful” not to link Jaye’s stories “always” to fate, she’s acknowledging the audience’s temptation to read narrative events as destiny because that’s how TV trains us to watch: foreshadowing as proof, symbolism as a roadmap.

The subtext is professional responsibility. Dhavernas is protecting the character’s agency - and her own interpretive freedom - against a too-neat metaphysical reading. She’s also nodding to the show’s tonal tightrope: if you overplay fate, you cheapen the human messiness that makes Jaye’s world feel real. The result is an actor’s practical skepticism: open to wonder, allergic to easy answers, attentive to how meaning gets manufactured onscreen.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dhavernas, Caroline. (2026, February 16). I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-a-religious-person-so-im-not-a-hardcore-142320/

Chicago Style
Dhavernas, Caroline. "I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-a-religious-person-so-im-not-a-hardcore-142320/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-a-religious-person-so-im-not-a-hardcore-142320/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Caroline Dhavernas (born May 15, 1978) is a Actress from Canada.

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