Cathy Hopkins Quotes
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
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I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.
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Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
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You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.
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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
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My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
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I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
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Theatre is home - I grew up doing it - and that is never going to change.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
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I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy
