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" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "
Ryan Murphy
Age
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" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "
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" 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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" I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "
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" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "
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" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "
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" 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. "
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" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "
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" I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. "
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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.' "
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" I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff. "
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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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" 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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" One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back. "
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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 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. "
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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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" The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "
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" 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! "
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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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