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" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "

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" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "

" 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. "

Change The World

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. "

Black And White

" 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. "

" The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. "

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

" 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 feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it. "

" 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! "