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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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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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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Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
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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 no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
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The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.
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To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.
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Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.
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All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.
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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.
