Ryan Murphy Quotes

#1. Tone is everything in TV.

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#2. When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

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#3. Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

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#4. I love crispy, cool sheets.

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#5. 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.

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#6. The sidewalks flash silver with mica.
Skyline smeared with geese.
By way of recognition
I lost the sound of your voice.

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#7. That man was a particular kind of liar. The kind that lies to himself about being a liar. Who is so corrupt, and deluded, he believed his own lies. Lies are like scars on your soul. They destory you.

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

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#9. And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so easily happen again if we're not mindful and careful.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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

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