Danica McKellar Quotes

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

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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!

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• Acting is my first love, and that’s my main career, it really is.

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• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

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• Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

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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?

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• Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

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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.

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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.

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• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I’ve been with.

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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.

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• I exercise at home – light cardio and yoga.

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• I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

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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.

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• I just did a spread in ‘Maxim’, I’m 35 years old. I’ve had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I’m still considered a role model.

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• I just love math and most people don’t.

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

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• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on ‘The Wonder Years’ set spoke fluent French.

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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.

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Danica McKellar (85)

Birth:	3rd January, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Film Director, Lawyer, Mathematician, Producer

About

Danica Mae McKellar was born in La Jolla, California. She is an American  actress, author, mathematician, film director, producer and lawyer. She played Kevin Arnold's on-again, off-again girlfriend Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years. She wrote four non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape. She studied at UCLA and earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with honours in 1998. Since leaving The Wonder Years, McKellar has had several guest roles in television series, and has written and directed two short films. She appeared in two Lifetime TV movies in the Moment of Truth series, playing Kristin Guthrie in 1994's Cradle of Conspiracy and Annie Mills Carman in 1996's Justice for Annie. On March 4, 2014, she was announced to be joining season 18 of Dancing with the Stars.

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