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Shonda Rhimes Quotes

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.

Shonda Rhimes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1970

Topics

People Me Think You Look Group

Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.

Jenny Zhang

Age Death Parents People Generation

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

Jens Lekman

Purpose Mission Songwriting Doubts

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

John Green

Character Great Day I Am Body Young

Try and stay away from dairy - especially if you're a woman! It's really hard on your hormones.

Megan Fox

Woman You Try Hard Away Stay

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Restaurant You Menu Engineer

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

Stephan Pastis

Me You Fall Audience Park Going

I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.

Mary Berry

Morning Shoes Night You Know Want

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

Time Man Wise Born Things

If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere else in New York.

Mike Colter

New York Energy You New Street Been

My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.

Michael Korda

Father Experience Army Grandfather

I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.

Jon Anderson

Life God Power Me Ideas Think

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clint Eastwood

Rain Believe Think You Want Way