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" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "
Ryan Murphy
People
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Child
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" 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. "
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" I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "
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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. "
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" I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "
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" 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.' "
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" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "
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" 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. "
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" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "
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" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "
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" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "
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" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Life
" 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. "
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Care
You
" You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "
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Home
You
" When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. "
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Loved
Show
" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "
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Because
Phobia
" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "
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Father
Escape
Boy
" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "
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Pain
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" I love crispy, cool sheets. "
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Sheets
Cool
Love
" I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story. "
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Think
Young
Love
" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "
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Think
People
Historical
" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "
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Dark
Then
Lovely
" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "
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Age
AIDS
Despair
" Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic. "
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Feel
" I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something. "
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" I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship. "
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Too Much
Me
" I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "
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Children
" For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me. "
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" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "
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