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Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Shonda Rhimes

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Shonda Rhimes
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 13
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Shonda Lynn Rhimes
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Choices
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I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
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Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
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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 aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'
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When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
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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. It's a hashtag.
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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 Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.
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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, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.
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Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
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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 together.
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Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
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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 you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.
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At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them
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You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.
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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
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I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
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The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
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I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.
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I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
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Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.
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I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.
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