Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
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In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.
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Truth is life's most precious commodity.
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You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.
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I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.
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Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.
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You can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.
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I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.
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I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.
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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
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Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.
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Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.
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Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
