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" No matter how you feel about social media, you can't deny the giant that is Facebook. "
Shonda Rhimes
Social Media
Feel
You
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" 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
" These days, I feel like a chunky spy in a thinner world. Strangers tell fat jokes in front of me. Jokes not meant for me. But... completely for the woman I used to be 150 pounds ago. The woman I could be again one day. The woman I will always be inside. Because being thinner doesn't make you a different person. It just makes you thinner. "
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Day
World
Woman
" The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point. "
Shonda Rhimes
Point
You
Whatever
" Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses. "
Shonda Rhimes
Control
Choices
Opinion
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Time
Black
Hispanic
" I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt. "
Shonda Rhimes
Admire
Identify
Eleanor Roosevelt
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Time
Feel
Conversation
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Control
Never
Three
" I can't change the past. It made me what I am. "
Shonda Rhimes
Me
Past
Change
" Work doesn't work without play. "
Shonda Rhimes
Without
Work
Play
" I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are. "
Shonda Rhimes
You
People
Marriage
" Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance. "
Shonda Rhimes
Cultures
Italy
Time
" 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
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Crazy
Time
Sister
" '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
" 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
" When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well. "
Shonda Rhimes
Show
Carry
Me
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
Deep
Me
Work
" 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'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
" I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen. "
Shonda Rhimes
Creative
Work
Space
" 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
Love
Doing
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. "
Shonda Rhimes
You
Great
Kind
" I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode. "
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Like
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Job
" A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have kids?' And I feel like that's completely unfair. "
Shonda Rhimes
People
Woman
You
" 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. "
Shonda Rhimes
People
Time
Day
" I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison. "
Shonda Rhimes
Going
Time
Myself
" I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative. "
Shonda Rhimes
People
Powerful
Positive