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Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes
American Producer
Born: Jan 13, 1970
Me People Think Time World You
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I am never worried that I'm not gonna get my work done. I was the kid who got straight As and was a little too intense in school. Like, I am a perfectionist, and I am going to sit at the front of the class with my hand raised. Shonda Rhimes
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I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things. Shonda Rhimes
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A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie. Shonda Rhimes
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I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative. Shonda Rhimes
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There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me. Shonda Rhimes
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I love having boyfriends. I love dating. I do not want a husband in my house. Shonda Rhimes
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I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken up by that. I can't imagine it being taken up by a husband and children and writing, and everything getting its due. I don't believe there is room for all of it. I really don't. Shonda Rhimes
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You could be a woman in Alabama who's a conservative Christian, or you could be a total crunchy-granola woman in Seattle and 20 years old, and both of you would watch Oprah. Shonda Rhimes
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Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world. Shonda Rhimes
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I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little. Shonda Rhimes
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My 15-year-old threw open the door the other day to my room and screamed, ''Freaks and Geeks' only has one season? Can they make another one?' And I tried to explain to her that it happened a long time ago. She didn't understand that because it felt very relevant to her. Shonda Rhimes
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After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person. Shonda Rhimes
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I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode. Shonda Rhimes
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Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore. Shonda Rhimes
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That first year I was doing 'Grey's,' I didn't know it was possible to fire the creator of a show off their own show, so I didn't behave like somebody who was afraid of being fired. Shonda Rhimes
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My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater. Shonda Rhimes
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I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt. Shonda Rhimes
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Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect. Shonda Rhimes
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'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world. Shonda Rhimes
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I don't care what color you are, what size you are, where you're from. It is disturbing that there's an idea that only tall, thin, willowy, size 0 women are attractive - even for the tall, thin, willowy, size 0 woman! We all should get to feel like there's something powerful and beautiful about who we are. Shonda Rhimes
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