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

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" I've always been sort of, 'I love it,' or, 'I hate it,' and I think, as a result, I've always been a polarizing person. You either love me or you hate me. There's not a lot of 'Hmmm.' "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate. "

" Tone is everything in TV. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories. "

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