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" 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
Guilty
Stop
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" For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything. "
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" My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer. "
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" I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly. "
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" I believe that good television should be challenging and frustrating and maddening and thrilling. If you just want to see people who look like you and think like you and do what you would do in any given situation, you'd have to stop looking at TV and start looking in a mirror. But would that be as much fun? "
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" I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another. "
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" You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent. "
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" There's nothing wrong with being driven. And there's nothing wrong with putting yourself first to reach your goals. "
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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. "
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" I'm just obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' especially Arya Stark. And I love 'Orange is the New Black,' although I just want to inhale that all at once. I keep trying to stretch it out, but it's so hard. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Women
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Feel
" I can't change the past. It made me what I am. "
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" I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you. "
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Men
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" My daughter thinks my shows suck. "
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Daughter
Suck
Shows
" I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time. "
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People
Time
Day
" When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. "
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Asking
Instinct
" I'm not a person who's interested in getting involved with politics just to get involved with them, and I don't need to. "
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" I love having boyfriends. I love dating. I do not want a husband in my house. "
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" I'd split up with a boyfriend and gone to Vermont to stare at my navel, and then 9/11 happened, and I spent days being scared of what was happening in the world. So I made a list of all the things I wanted to do, and at the top was adopt a baby. Nine months and two days later, I brought my daughter home. "
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" I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.' "
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" A hashtag is not a movement. "
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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. "
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" I think any time you allow someone to see themselves reflected in another person on screen, there's validation there. It's hard to feel strong and sure of yourself when you're 15, but if you can turn on your television or computer and see someone who makes you feel like, 'I can be that strong...' there's validation there. "
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" I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. "
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Reason
" To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes. "
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" 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. "
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" I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else. "
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" Sometimes people don't want to be empowered because they are afraid of being the person to make the decisions. "
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