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" I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "
Ryan Murphy
Young
Day
Off
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" 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 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. "
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Too Much
Me
" The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. "
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Way
Determination
" 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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Said
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Want
" 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
Trying
Emotions
" 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. "
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Always
I Can
Sense
" 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 am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "
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I Am
Going
Anything
" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "
Ryan Murphy
Find
Landscape
You
" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "
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Think
Things
Way
" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "
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Emotional
Childhood
Difficult
" 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
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Know
Process
Weird
" You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. "
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Rejection
You
Life
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Sometimes
People
Feel
" 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
" 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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Sexy
Story
Women
" 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. "
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Back
Two
Life
" 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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Life
Matter
Room
" 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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Petty
Stuff
Work
" 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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Think
You
Hate
" 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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Potential
Situation
World
" 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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Age
AIDS
Despair
" 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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Trash
Understand
Woman
" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "
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Think
People
Historical
" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "
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Hollywood
Battle
Starting
" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "
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Clown
Because
Phobia
" 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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Think
Acceptance
Shine
" 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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Growing
Loved
Show