Quotes by Danica Mckellar - Page 2

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Merit
People
Truth Is
Wonder
Years
Rid
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Book
Math
Online
Teaching
Time Consuming
Website
Writing
Love Time Way
Full-Time
Gig
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Flip
Numbers
Reciprocal
Upside Down
Want
Convert
Number
Fraction
Mixed
Upside
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Famous
Dumb
Fame
Jessica
Looks
Jessica Simpson
Monroe
Popular
Perceived
Simpson
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
Dumb
Teenage
Thinking
Attract
Lured
More And More
Teenage Girls
Wrong Kind
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The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Divorce
Pain
Sound
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What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Health
Children
Parent
Unusual
Education Family Health
Believed
Meant
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My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Baby
Children
Husband
Unborn
Unborn Child
Time Good Music
Babies
Clap
Plays
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Class
College
Equations
Math
Study
Classes
Intending
Rush
Solving
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I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
College
Math
Perception
Adjusted
Hack
Socially
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
Appearance
Exclusion
Long
Time Long Long Time
Anything Else
Asset
Valued
Main Thing
Stereotypes
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
True Love
Careers
Different Sides
First Love
Math
Sides
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When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Acting
Hands
Point Of View
Views
Entire Life
Pull
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Being Smart
Fashionable
Fun
Giving Up
Math
Powerful
Smart
Great Way
Popular
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Beautiful
Fun
Smart
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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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Girl
Teen
Friendly
Math
Nerdy
Protector
Scary
School
Accessible
Everyone Else
Pocket
Scary Thing
Tells
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Cameras
Capture
Giving
Plus
Salary
Show Business
Agent
Camera
Fails
Fee
Manager
Publicist
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I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Cautious
Fantasy
Glad
Guy
Hands
Mean
Always Never Know
Cooper
Count
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In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Home
Teacher
Cry
Homework
Junior High
Math
School
Terrified
Home Me School
Major
Joking
Junior
Seriously
Suggested
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Concepts
Fun
Math
School
Convey
Generally
Presented
Speaking
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I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Careers
Foundation
Math
Self Confidence
Builds
Great Career
Tool
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I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
Acting
Cat
Glamorous
Math
Position
Study
Unique
Consider
Model
Recognize
Role
Role Model
Took
Young Girls
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Art
Amazing
Amazing Things
Application
Beautiful
Beautiful Art
Math
Most Amazing
Patterns
Love Art Beautiful
Love Art Amazing
Art Form
Interested
Structures
Truly
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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Crush
Guy
Impress
Magic
Planning
Thinking
Hours And Hours
Juggle
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Movie
Sneak
Sneak In
Thinking
Two
Love Movies See
Needless
Row
To Love
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I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.
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Artificial
Baby
Body
Eating
Staying
White
Foods
Literally
Organic
Precious
Processed
Stricter
Tons
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
College
Congress
Importance
Math
Research
Session
Too Late
Quite A Bit
Raising
Scholarships
Spoke
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Dad
Donald Duck
Every Night
Father
Golden
Great Memories
Memories
Pluto
Great Dad Game
Disney
Donald
Duck
Page
Portrait
Voices
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Jobs
Entry
Intense
Math
Media
Proof
Spotlight
Ucla
West
Consequently
West Wing
Wing
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
Fun
Glamorous
Irresponsible
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Prepared
Satisfying
Smarter
Decisions
Mistakes
Life Better Your
Life Fun Better
Likely
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Algebra
Eye
Fun
Magic
People
Prove
Repeating
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Attractive
Guy
Names
Primal
Simple
Check
Effortlessly
Figuring
Opens
Quickly
Signs
Skilled
Tip
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Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Confidence
Intelligence
Capable
Dumb
Math
Mean
Self Respect
Smart
Tackling
Worthy
Respect Yourself Your
Challenge
Finding
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
Beer
Convince
Dumb
Enough Time
Party
Time Enough Me
Cheap
Parties
Quick
Seemed
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Teacher
Block
Cry
Frustrated
Good Grades
Grades
Junior High
Math
Perseverance
Stumbling
Time Good Home
Teachers
Choosing
Ended
Junior
Stumbling Block
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Home
Teacher
Cry
Friendly
Frustrated
Math
Scary
Students
Stupid
Accessible
All The Difference
Fault
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Coffee
College
Drank
Math
Drinker
Merely
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Appearance
Brands
Makeup
Math
Obsessed
Products
Smart
Life Work Your
Life Work Better
Clothing
Life Work Smart
Develop
Smarts
Studying
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Crumbling
Friendly
Math
Self Esteem
Silly
Women Me People
Accessible
Gosh
Noticed
Recognized
So Many People
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Believe
Clique
Good Grades
Grades
School
Self
Self Respect
Good Enough Believe
Belong
Carefully
Good Believe Enough
Good Believe Good People
Pretty Good
Surrounded
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Girl
Cookies
Fashion
Math
Shopping
Teaching
Life Love Me
Belong
Showing
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I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
Danica Mckellar / Actress
Opportunity
Dimensions
Models
Multiplicity
Research
Two
Ucla
Undergraduate
Years
Time Myself Opportunity
Rare
Degree
Theorem
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