Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Shonda Rhimes

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• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Star

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Better

• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Politics

• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Secret
  • Parenting
  • Neglect

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

  

  Macy Gray
  • World
  • Goodbye

• A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Good
  • War

• I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

  

  Jerry Ferrara
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Football

• Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Trump

• However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Up
  • Hope

• I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Reality
  • Door
  • Sad

• I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

  

  Jean M. Auel

• Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • May
  • Death
  • Jesus

• The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Hand
  • Tears
  • Kiss

• There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Drawing

• When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

  Antony Sher
  • People
  • Writing
  • Painting

• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Drawing
  • Lines
  • Waste