Colleen Haskell Quotes
It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.
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I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
