Stephen Hopkins Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
