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" Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people a different side of you,' it's sort of an interesting thing that in my case, I've been very lucky, where they're like, 'OK.' "

Ryan Murphy

People

Work

I Love You

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" Tone is everything in TV. "

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" Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams. "

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

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

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

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Child

" One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too. "

" I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way. "

" 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. "

" For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me. "

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Love

Night

" I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father! "

" It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting process so slowly that it does feel like an instant family. "

" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "

" It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate. "

" I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story. "

" I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette. "

" Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go. "

" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "

" What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise. "

" If you look at 'American Horror Story' or 'Crime Story,' these are visceral, action-packed, sometimes bloody episodes of television. They're not 'feminine.' They're not about sexy women sitting around looking beautiful, drinking lattes. These episodes are calling cards to show companies like Marvel, 'Look, women can do these kind of movies.' "

" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "

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

" Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of. "

" 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. "

Ryan Murphy

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Writing