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" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Just
Need
Involved
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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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Home
Daughter
Baby
" To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes. "
Shonda Rhimes
Parent
Being
Lead
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Country
Here
Reason
" When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. "
Shonda Rhimes
Hide
Asking
Instinct
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Woman
World
Perspective
" That first year I was doing 'Grey's,' I didn't know it was possible to fire the creator of a show off their own show, so I didn't behave like somebody who was afraid of being fired. "
Shonda Rhimes
Fire
Know
Possible
" 'Grey's' has this universal, global thing to it. It works all over the world. "
Shonda Rhimes
Over
World
Universal
" Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect. "
Shonda Rhimes
Dislike
I Am
Perfect
" My parents are professors; they're intellectual. I spent a lot of time reading books. To me, everyone always looks like they do in your imagination. And in my imagination, the characters always looked like me. "
Shonda Rhimes
Reading
Parents
Me
" A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie. "
Shonda Rhimes
Movie
Front
Adjective
" Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival. "
Shonda Rhimes
Care
Strong
Mom
" When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process. "
Shonda Rhimes
You
Process
Reading
" 'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world. "
Shonda Rhimes
Fun
Dark
Government
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Story
I Can
Show
" Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard. As it should be. "
Shonda Rhimes
Company
I Am
Hard
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Own
Opinions
Like
" I don't ever approach anything from the issue first, so I can't tell you that I've thought about tackling universal health care. I'd have to have some great story I'd want to tell, and then universal health care would become part of the way to tell that story. "
Shonda Rhimes
You
Great
Thought
" My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well. "
Shonda Rhimes
Philosophy
Out
Look
" There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done. "
Shonda Rhimes
Work
Still
Untold
" Work doesn't work without play. "
Shonda Rhimes
Without
Work
Play
" The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I see it played by somebody. "
Shonda Rhimes
Character
I See
Own
" I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see that as my job. It's why my business cards say 'storyteller.' "
Shonda Rhimes
Job
Crazy
Myself
" I don't think that my job requires me to be competitive at all. I'm in my office by myself, or I'm in my writers' room with my people. I've chosen a job in which there's no competition allowed. It's probably best for everyone. "
Shonda Rhimes
Job
Competition
Best
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Life
Space
Writing
" Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone's really miserable, and I don't understand that. I don't know why you don't grow people to then be able to take over as you. That's how I can have more shows. "
Shonda Rhimes
Writing
Crazy
People
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Writing
Director
Vision
" I actually really love Twitter - I used to feel angry and insulted when people criticised me or the shows, but now I don't take it too seriously. What I do love is that there's this great direct line to fans. "
Shonda Rhimes
Love Is
Great
People
" I don't care what color you are, what size you are, where you're from. It is disturbing that there's an idea that only tall, thin, willowy, size 0 women are attractive - even for the tall, thin, willowy, size 0 woman! We all should get to feel like there's something powerful and beautiful about who we are. "
Shonda Rhimes
Women
Color
Woman
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Want
Trying
Orange
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Run
Proud
Overcome