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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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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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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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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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'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
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The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
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I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.
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While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
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L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
