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" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "
Ryan Murphy
Love
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" I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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 would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when I was 11, I related emotionally to being left and thrown in a trash can on the side of the road. Her damage - I got it. I didn't understand Han Solo at all. "
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" In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. "
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" 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. "
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" I love crispy, cool sheets. "
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" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "
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" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "
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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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" 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'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. "
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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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" I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through. "
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" 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.' "
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