On being open about how she hires people to help care for her three daughters Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Anything that took me out of my comfort zone I was going to do it, if asked to do it."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Year of Yes Subtitle How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Author Shonda Rhimes Once I sort of realized that she was right, I was going to say yes to all the things that scared me, that made me nervous, that freaked me out, that made me think I'm going to look foolish doing it. "My oldest sister said to me, 'You never say yes to anything.' And by that she meant I never accept any invitations," Rhimes says. She tells NPR's Audie Cornish that her sister helped spark her "year of yes." In her new memoir, Year of Yes, Rhimes explains how she tried to balance her ambition with her life behind the scenes and how she treated her friends, family and (most importantly) herself. Hollywood is notoriously uncharitable to writers, but the success of her company ShondaLand - the force behind the ABC top-rated dramas Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder - has made her a household name. Shonda Rhimes will be the first to admit she didn't expect to be famous. Everybody gets to be fulfilled."I've always been an introverted person," Shonda Rhimes says, and she found the fame that came with her television successes to be "daunting." Everybody gets to be a three-dimensional person. On writing diverse characters for her shows: "Everybody gets to have a love life.
"I don't like public speaking, so to give the Dartmouth commencement speech? That's insane." Here are some other great tidbits from Rhimes' interview with DAM. And over the past year, she's fought to overcome her fears by embarking on a "Year of Yeses." "My New Year's resolution was to say yes to the things that scare me," Rhimes told the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine-she graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 and delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of 2014, a prospect that terrified her. The single mom of three admits that, in spite of all her successes, there are still some things that totally scare her. But just because she's a trailblazer and a role model doesn't mean she's always had everything figured out. The shows she writes and executive-produces-Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Private Practice, and How to Get Away With Murder-are some of the most-watched, culturally diverse, and groundbreaking programs on television.
Shonda Rhimes is, arguably, one of the most important people working in the entertainment industry today.
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