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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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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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 went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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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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Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
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I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.
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It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.
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It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.
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And so Christianity was the only evangelistic religion that we know of in antiquity, and, along with Judaism, it was also the only one that was exclusive. That combination of evangelism and exclusion proved to be decisive.
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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.
