Shonda Rhimes Quotes

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• Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Badass

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

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  Inspiring, Strong Women, Drawing

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• The only limit to success is your own imagination.

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  Imagination, Limits

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

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  Life, Beautiful, Stories

  Glamour Women Of The Year speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.

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• Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you're paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.

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  Dream, Moving, Passion

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

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  Badass, Drawing, People

  "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.

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

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  Forever, Unexpected, Steady

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• Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

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  Playing It Safe, Safe

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• I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

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  Dream, Powerful, Successful

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Ditch the dream and be a doer.

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  Dream, Doers

  "Shonda Rhimes ’91, Commencement Address". Dartmouth Commencement Speech, www.dartmouth.edu. June 8, 2014.

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• Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

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  Optimism, Choices, Brilliant

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2014

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• You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

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  Inspiring, Jobs, Home

  Shonda Rhimes’s Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

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  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "Watch Shonda Rhimes’s Wonderfully Candid Dartmouth Commencement Speech". Shonda Rhimes’s commencement address to the students of Dartmouth, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.

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• It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Scary

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". 'Grey's Anatomy '('Second Opinion'), November 15, 2012.

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• Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

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  People, Boundaries, Fence

  "Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut Is the Deepest". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

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  Thinking, Expectations, Littles

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Great Expectations", 2007), (2005 - ).

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• This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.

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  Strong Women, Dog, Night

  "Shonda Rhimes at THR's 2014 Power Women Event: 'I Haven't Broken Through Any Glass Ceilings'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2014.

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• You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.

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  Not Alone

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• We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

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  Future, Home, Blow

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).

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• 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.

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  Mean, Succeed, Brilliant

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

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  Reading, Like Being Alone, Long

  "Oprah Talks to Shonda Rhimes". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2006.

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• You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.

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  Heart, Perfect Days, Broken

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• When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

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  Believe, People, Shows

  "How you know you're in 'Shondaland'" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

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  Mother, Titles, Verbs

  Twitter post from May 11, 2013

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• I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

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  Inspiring, Confused, Black

  "Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?" by Willa Paskin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

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