Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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May books spread the world over!
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
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I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people. It helps the fanatics.
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Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
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Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.
