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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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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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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I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.
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The tension in pro ball comes from the realization that any game could be your last, that an injury could end your career. And in TV, you never know if or when your series will be canceled.
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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
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Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
