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

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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. "

" When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. "

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

" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "

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

" 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 think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff. "

" 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. "

" In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. "

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

" I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about. "

" 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. "

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

" The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. "

" 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. "

" I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did. "

" 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! "

" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "

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

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

" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place. "

" 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. "