Shonda Rhimes
speaker
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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When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling.
For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air.
It is manning the troops, it is painting a canvas, it is hitting every high note, it is running a marathon, it is being Beyonce.
And it is all of those things at the same time.
I love working.
It is creative and mechanical and exhausting and exhilarating and hilarious and disturbing and clinical and maternal and cruel and judicious.
And what makes it all so good is the hum.
There is some kind of shift inside me when the work gets good.
A hum begins in my brain, and it grows and it grows, and that hum sounds like the open road, and I could drive it forever.
And a lot of people, when I try to explain the hum, they assume that I'm talking about the writing, that my writing brings me joy.
And don't get me wrong, it does.
But the hum ... It wasn't until I started making television, that I started working, working and making and building and creating and collaborating, that I discovered this thing, this buzz, this rush, this hum.
The hum is more than writing.
The hum is action and activity.
The hum is a drug.
The hum is music.
The hum is light and air.
The hum is God's whisper right in my ear.
And when you have a hum like that, you can't help but strive for greatness.
That feeling, you can't help but strive for greatness at any cost.
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