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" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "
Ryan Murphy
Dark
Then
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" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "
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" 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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" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "
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" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "
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" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "
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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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" Tone is everything in TV. "
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" You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "
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" I love crispy, cool sheets. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "
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Boy
" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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. "
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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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