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Shonda Quotes & Sayings

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You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone. — Shonda Rhimes

Lesson NUMBER THREE is that ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY ARE DOING IT ALL PERFECTLY IS A LIAR. — Shonda Rhimes

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up. — Shonda Rhimes

The only obstacle to your success is your own imagination. — Shonda Rhimes

I am never more sure of myself about a topic than when I have absolutely no experience with it. — Shonda Rhimes

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. — Alessandra Stanley

I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. — Lee Daniels

I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker. — Lee Daniels

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will. — Shonda Rhimes

Cristina Yang was the walking validation of my dreams. — Shonda Rhimes

Ditch the dream and be a doer. — Shonda Rhimes

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice. — Shonda Rhimes

Mother is a verb, not a noun. — Shonda Rhimes

I can experience life or I can give up on it. — Shonda Rhimes

So you made it out of a uterus a long time ago. Big deal," I whisper. "So did everybody else on the planet. What else you got? — Shonda Rhimes

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. — Shonda Rhimes

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are. — Shonda Rhimes

in order to move forward you have to stop looking back! — Shonda Cheekes

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. — Shonda Rhimes

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. — Shonda Rhimes

But we all have to acknowledge that our way is not the way. — Shonda Rhimes

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say. — Shonda Rhimes

Standing around like Wonder Woman in the morning can make people think you are more amazing at lunchtime. Crazy. But true. How awesome is that? — Shonda Rhimes

I think it's well-known that I love all things ABC and Shonda Rhimes - I'm a huge 'Scandal' and 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. — Aja Naomi King

Wonder Woman is not faking it. Wonder Woman means it. Wonder Woman is all swagger and badassery. Compliment — Shonda Rhimes

If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell. — Shonda Rhimes

Marriage is a financial partnership. Marriage has nothing to do with love. Love is a choice we can make every day. — Shonda Rhimes

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. — Shonda Rhimes

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. — Shonda Rhimes

Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy," she says. "But he is not the sun. You are. — Shonda Rhimes

the air you are breathing right now is rare air. Appreciate it. And don't be an asshole. — Shonda Rhimes

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are. — Shonda Rhimes

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe. — Shonda Rhimes

This Yes is about giving yourself the permission to shift the focus of what is a priority from what's good for you over to what makes you feel good. — Shonda Rhimes

don't apologize for being powerful. They don't — Shonda Rhimes

I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example. — Shonda Rhimes

Every "yes" changes something in me. Every "yes" is a bit more transformative. Every "yes" sparks some new phase of revolution. — Shonda Rhimes

If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more. - CRISTINA YANG, GREY'S ANATOMY — Shonda Rhimes

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever. — Shonda Rhimes

Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance. — Shonda Rhimes

There is victory in surrender. — Shonda Rhimes

Now, I'm no longer looking for the enemy. So I no longer see the enemy. — Shonda Rhimes

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world. — Ellen Pompeo

I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united. — Shonda Rhimes

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. — Shonda Rhimes

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV. — Shonda Rhimes

Cheesecake will always taste like love. — Shonda Rhimes

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment. — Shonda Rhimes

The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes

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. — Shonda Rhimes

Remind me to start a revolution about that later. — Shonda Rhimes

Badassery, I'm discovering, is a new level of confidence - in both yourself and those around you. — Shonda Rhimes

I was baptized Catholic but I was Church of Oprah. If you are a person on — Shonda Rhimes

I am different. I am an original. And like everyone else, I am here to take up space in the universe. — Shonda Rhimes

When you sit down to write every day, it becomes easier and easier to tap into that creative space inside your mind. — Shonda Rhimes

Losing yourself does not happen all at once. Losing yourself happens one no at a time. — Shonda Rhimes

Saying yes . . . saying yes is courage. Saying yes is the sun. Saying yes is life. — Shonda Rhimes

It felt so good to write. — Shonda Schilling

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. — Shonda Rhimes

Sometimes the toilet paper does not win. Sometimes a broke woman needs the red wine more. — Shonda Rhimes

I mean that I am going to miss Cristina Yang so much that my heart hurts. — Shonda Rhimes

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. — Shonda Rhimes

#StopPretendingHashtagsAreTheSameAsDoingSomething — Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes is at the top of television. — Wes Brown

Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Devote a slice of your energies toward making the world suck less every week. — Shonda Rhimes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. — Shonda Rhimes

Being a mother is incredibly important. To the naysayers, I growl, do not diminish it by calling it a job. — Shonda Rhimes

I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible. — Shonda Rhimes

The only limit to success is your own imagination. — Shonda Rhimes