Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.
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Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.
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When life gives you lemons make melons.
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When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.
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If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
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Every girl loves posing in her underwear. It's always fun to do that.
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I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
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I'm just happy when people want me to work for them.
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This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.
