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" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
Men
Control
Business
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" I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about. "
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" 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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" For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me. "
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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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" 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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Who
Ask
Awards
" I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references. "
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Business
" 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. "
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Loved
Feel
Life
" 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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Sense
" 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. "
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Love
Amazing
Business
" The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. "
Ryan Murphy
Opportunity
Create
Greatest
" 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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School
Too Much
Me
" In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. "
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Like
People
Business
" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "
Ryan Murphy
Dark
Then
Lovely
" 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.' "
Ryan Murphy
Career
Think
You
" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "
Ryan Murphy
Age
AIDS
Despair
" 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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Women
Children
Culture
" 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
" You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "
Ryan Murphy
Terrible
Home
You
" Tone is everything in TV. "
Ryan Murphy
TV
Tone
Everything
" 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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You
Character
Gay
" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "
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Find
Landscape
You
" 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
" I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "
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Lights
About
Different
" Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. "
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Writing
Sometimes
Road
" 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. "
Ryan Murphy
High
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You
" One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back. "
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Down
Unique
American
" 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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People
Doing
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" 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. "
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New York
Growing
" 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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Change The World
Change
Progress
" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "
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Hollywood
Battle
Starting