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

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

" 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. "

" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "

" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "

" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "

" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Tone is everything in TV. "

" 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 find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "

" 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. "

" You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

" 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.' "

" I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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 started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "

" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "