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Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

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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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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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Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.
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This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.
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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 that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
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I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.
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My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
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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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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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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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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
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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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Mother is a verb, not a noun.
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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 I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.
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