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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In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.
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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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I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
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You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.
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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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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
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Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story - so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
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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.
