2 min readSep 5, 2022
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- I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
- The other day, I noticed I’d arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things — my toys, my sister’s cosmetics.
- I grew up singing in the church choir, but I’ve not really had any training.
- When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.
- I like jeans and t-shirts.
- I talk about my cats all the time.
- If everyone had a business model like Raven + Lily, I feel like the world would be an awesome place to live in.
- I loved playing Emma Pillsbury so much.
- This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn’t happen.
- Jane Lynch is incredibly quick-witted, very intelligent, and extremely humorous. Also, on top of that all, just a very wonderful, warm, kind person. She’s definitely someone to look up to.
- Whether it’s buying products or researching what you’re buying, or just becoming aware of what you’re buying, you’re saying so much with the money that you’re spending.
- I love Britain. I’d like to work there. Maybe a BBC crime show; I love those. A thriller would be something different.
- My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I’m completely used to it, and I’ve come to see it as a term of endearment.
- I used to lose my keys a lot.
- When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.
- I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn’t allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.
- I definitely know that I’m quirky. I know that I’m different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.
- I loved ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ — I thought she was the funniest lady I’d ever seen.
- I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don’t feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don’t worry or stress like I used to.
- Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.