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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

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

" 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 don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "