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" Disney has made $2 billion on 'Grey's Anatomy.' I don't have $2 billion. "

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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. "

" The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore. "

" This is going to sound crazy, but there was a period of time where on TLC they would show those surgeries - like a woman had a 90-pound tumor, or they separated these twins. And my sister and I - she lived in Ohio when I lived in California - would watch them together on the phone. "

" I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together. "

" No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how curvy, how round, how flat. If you love you, then I love you. "

" What's great about Netflix is that everything is kind of instantaneous, and it goes around the world instantly. Everything is released at once. The format can be a little bit whatever you want. "

" I would have 47 kids if I thought I could get away with it. I love children. "

" The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy. If it's a comedy with Latinos in it, it's a Latino comedy. 'Normal' is white male, and I find that to be shocking and ridiculous. "

" The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point. "

" I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt. "

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" Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues. "

" I really do feel like the work and time we spend avoiding having difficult conversations is so much more wasteful and painful and time-consuming than actually having the difficult conversation. "

" 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. "

" There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history. "

" There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something. "

" My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well. "

" I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone. "

" Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium. "

" When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time. "

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

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

" I don't get to watch a lot of TV, mainly because I'm busy working. And I pretty much try not to watch very much television at all, even American television, until I'm done with a season, because things start to creep into my head otherwise. "

" My worst trait is that I'm an introvert. When I've led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my natural desire to run and hide. I'm very proud of the fact that I have been able to do that. "

" I like people with their own opinions, and I like people who argue with me. It's very exhausting to be in a room full of people who just nod and smile. "

" When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier. "

" My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read without names on the covers of the script. I can't tell you how many times my writers, women and men, will pick people of color and women much more often than they would with a cover on the script. "

" I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative. "