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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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
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On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
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I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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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.
