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" 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. "

Ryan Murphy

Work

Think

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

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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. "

" In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. "

Ryan Murphy

People

Business

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Ryan Murphy

People

Child

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

" 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. "

Ryan Murphy

New York

Growing

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

" 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! "

" I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen. "