Shonda Rhimes Quotes

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• Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who…
• You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any…
• I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent,…
• I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with…
• The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
• It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things…
• Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work…
• Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
• Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
• I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
• Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy,…
• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the…
• I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.
• A hashtag is not helping. A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr King. A hashtag does not change anything.…
• I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. I am a…
• I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act…
• I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something…
• Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.
• Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

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