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Ryan Murphy

American Writer

Born: Nov 9, 1965

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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. Ryan Murphy

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

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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. Ryan Murphy

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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. Ryan Murphy

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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. Ryan Murphy

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I love crispy, cool sheets. Ryan Murphy

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

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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. Ryan Murphy

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I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. Ryan Murphy

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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. Ryan Murphy

When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. Ryan Murphy

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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. Ryan Murphy

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When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. Ryan Murphy

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I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. Ryan Murphy

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

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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. Ryan Murphy

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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. Ryan Murphy

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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. Ryan Murphy

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