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" 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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" 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. "

" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. "

" 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. "

" Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. "

" I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. "

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

" Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go. "

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" 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.' "

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

" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "

" 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. "

" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "

" Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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