Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
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Music has always been really important to me.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my persona. I want it to be a pleasant experience that's not just about hearing my voice. I remember some singers whose voices were so pretty, it didn't matter what they sang - you loved it.
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The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
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As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
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My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it.
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There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.
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They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.
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My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.
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I liked the idea of having a record that's reggae-influenced but not musically, just lyrically. I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together. Which I suppose is at the root of most any religion. You're gonna find it, if taken in the right context.
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Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.
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You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
