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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. "

Ryan Murphy

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

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

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

" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "

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

" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "

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Child

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

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" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

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

" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ryan Murphy

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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. "

" 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. "

" When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. "

" 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 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. "