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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. "
Ryan Murphy
School
Too Much
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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Down
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" I wanted to create a culture that allowed my children to see the world differently, if only from a strictly visual perspective: to have a child see a room where half of the people are women and minorities is so powerful. I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "
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" 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. "
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Way
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" 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'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "
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Lights
About
Different
" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "
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Find
Landscape
You
" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "
Ryan Murphy
Town
World
Like
" 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. "
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Side
Writing
Like
" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "
Ryan Murphy
Think
Things
Way
" 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. "
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Day
Heart
Small
" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "
Ryan Murphy
Who
Ask
Awards
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Always
I Can
Sense
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Been
Write
You
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Said
You
Want
" 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.' "
Ryan Murphy
Career
Think
You
" Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. "
Ryan Murphy
Writing
Sometimes
Road
" I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. "
Ryan Murphy
Always
Black
Black And White
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
High
Cotton
You
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Failure
Care
You
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Foundation
Women
Company
" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "
Ryan Murphy
Every Day
Day
Feel
" 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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You
Way
Thought
" I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "
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Everyone
Better
Children
" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "
Ryan Murphy
Age
AIDS
Despair
" I love crispy, cool sheets. "
Ryan Murphy
Sheets
Cool
Love
" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "
Ryan Murphy
Dark
Then
Lovely
" With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it. "
Ryan Murphy
People
Takes
Always
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Loved
Feel
Life
" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "
Ryan Murphy
You
Character
Gay
" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "
Ryan Murphy
Years
Love
Informed