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

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

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

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

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

" I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place. "

" Tone is everything in TV. "

" 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. "

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "