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 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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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
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Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
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I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.
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We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.
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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.
