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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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'm appreciative of things going wrong. At first it sounds crazy, but how boring would life be if you just coasted along without any challenges? Without learning about who you really are through the process of going through the darker times? Without feeling the sense of elation when you reach even a small stepping stone?
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The comedy on '2 Broke Girls' always comes from a place of love - it's never mean. We're a comedy, and we often go right to the edge. It doesn't bother me. I've encountered this all my life. I've been made fun of all my life.
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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."
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People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
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Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
