quotes and sayings
2 min readSep 5, 2022

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  1. I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
  2. 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.
  3. I grew up singing in the church choir, but I’ve not really had any training.
  4. When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.
  5. I like jeans and t-shirts.
  6. I talk about my cats all the time.
  7. If everyone had a business model like Raven + Lily, I feel like the world would be an awesome place to live in.
  8. I loved playing Emma Pillsbury so much.
  9. This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn’t happen.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. I love Britain. I’d like to work there. Maybe a BBC crime show; I love those. A thriller would be something different.
  13. 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.
  14. I used to lose my keys a lot.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. I definitely know that I’m quirky. I know that I’m different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.
  18. I loved ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ — I thought she was the funniest lady I’d ever seen.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.

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