Stephen Hopkins Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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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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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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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 family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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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 don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
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Everyone needs all the awareness of sarcoma they can get. Twelve thousand people get diagnosed a year. That's too many. One percent of cancers are sarcomas, and about 15% of pediatric cancers are sarcomas.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
