291 Quotes by Shonda Rhimes

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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.

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    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.

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    Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

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    I can feel it when there's too much medical and not enough personal, and that's the most important balance to keep. We've done episodes where there's a ton of personal and not very much medical. Works just fine. But when the medical sort of overtakes the personal, the show doesn't feel like the show.

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    For us, not having a time slot last year, and now all of you watching ... has been great.

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    This isn't a traditional medical drama. I've always said from the beginning, we're a relationship show with surgery. It's never about the patients. It's about how the doctors feel about the patients.

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    The Web allows people to know our names and what we look like. As a writer, you don't expect to be recognizable to anybody. And it's certainly not your goal. But I spent so much time wishing to have the show, and wishing that it would be a success, that I certainly can't complain about anything that happens after that. The viewers feel a little bit a part of the writer's room in that sense.

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