Shonda Rhimes

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1,129 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 10 Apr

Shonda Rhimes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And my sister just stopped and looked at me because she knows me.

And she goes, Shonda, are you going to do any of these things?

And I remember feeling like shocked that she'd even asked that question.

I was like, absolutely not.

Like, there's no way.

And I had my reasons.

I was like, I'm a mom of three.

I have all these shows on television.

I don't have time for any of this.

And she really gave me like a lecture and then kind of said, you never say yes to anything.

And it stuck with me.

Those words just stuck with me for a while as being really true.

And the more and more I thought about it, the more true it was and the more clear it was that she was right.

I wasn't saying yes to anything.

What does that mean?

To me, it felt like I had absolutely nothing to lose.

Like where I was already was completely unsatisfying.

I was already miserable.

And what were you miserable?

Or like, what was it?

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