Raven Goodwin (Raven Shamira Goodwin) Quotes

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

Raven Goodwin

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• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

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• My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

  

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• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

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• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

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• My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

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• If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.

  

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• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

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  • Family
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• My mom is a great entertainer.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

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• People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

  

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• My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

  

  Zack Snyder
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• I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

  

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• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

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• I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

  

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• I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I first came to the States, she was so shocked that everyone was so dressed down in sandals and shorts. It's not quite like that in Asia. To give that a superluxurious makeover? For me to make street wear? It's sort of chic to do it.

  

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• My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!

  

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• Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

  

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• The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.

  

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• I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.

  

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• My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play me guys like Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker and Richie Havens - a lot of very emotional players.

  

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• I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

  

  Raven Goodwin
  • Mom
  • Needs
  • Elementary