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" You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have 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'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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