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" Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. "

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" As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no. "

" Tone is everything in TV. "

" People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side. "

" You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. "

" When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. "

" Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. "

" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "

" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "

" I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen. "

" I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. "

" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "

" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "

" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "

" The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. "

" At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories. "

" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "

" I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. "

" I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "

" All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life. "

" Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive. "

" All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.' "

" I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter. "

" I've always been sort of, 'I love it,' or, 'I hate it,' and I think, as a result, I've always been a polarizing person. You either love me or you hate me. There's not a lot of 'Hmmm.' "

" When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there. "

" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "

" I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady. "

" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "

" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "

" Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it. "

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "