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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I was just really lucky.
Like all these ways of deflecting, like accepting a compliment.
It's the same thing.
And why do we do it?
Because we don't want people to think that we like ourselves too much or think we're so great.
And the idea is you should like yourself that much and you should think you're that great.
Yeah.
I mean, it's the same with no.
Thank you is a complete sentence.
Like I really started doing the thank you, smile, and then shut up.
It's really hard to do.
It really is when you first start trying to do it because they thank you and then you think, oh my God, what do they think I'm thinking?
You start to let your brain go in a panicked way.
But thank you, smiling, and shutting up is a great way of dealing with it.
And the reality of it is, is
The conversation doesn't really continue after that.
They accept, they've given the compliment, they feel good because you've accepted their compliment, and then things move on.
Instead, when we do all this declaration of how not special we are, they start to think, well, maybe they're not that special.
Like, why are you giving people reasons to discount you?
Yeah, you basically say you're wrong.
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