Raven Goodwin (Raven Shamira Goodwin) Quotes

'Being Mary Jane,' I really want everybody to see what we've done. I've never watched a project that I've worked and thought, 'Damn that's really good. It's so juicy, and it's hit after hit.'

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• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Courage

• If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • America
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Lucky

• In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Like
  • Service
  • Obsessed

• If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Why
  • Want
  • Self

• I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Son
  • Husband

• I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Money
  • House
  • Government

• As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Identity
  • Islamic
  • Awareness

• If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.

  

  Patrick White
  • She
  • Garden

• You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.

  

  Archilochus
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Nothing is as exciting - or as nerve-wracking - as being the new girl. Whether it's your first day of school or you're starting a dream job, if there's one thing that makes a first impression a lot less daunting, it's a really, really good hair day.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Good
  • School
  • Job

• I fell in love with hip-hop a little bit late; I grew up on Another Bad Creation and Kris Kross. But my mom got me a TV in my room, and I remember seeing Biggie's 'Give Me One More Chance,' and I was like, 'Oh, this is how a house party looks!' I really, really fell in love with it when Tupac created 'Dear Mama.'

  

  Karen Civil
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Choices

• I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I'd rather spend it on an experience, like traveling.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Experience

• I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Country
  • Health

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you're defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.

  

  Keith B. Alexander
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Believe

• I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Gay

• 'Being Mary Jane,' I really want everybody to see what we've done. I've never watched a project that I've worked and thought, 'Damn that's really good. It's so juicy, and it's hit after hit.'

  

  Raven Goodwin
  • Good
  • Everybody
  • Worked