Ryan Murphy Quotes

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 grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• Values are more important than money.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Important
  • Money
  • Values

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Why
  • Black
  • Daily

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Always
  • Magic
  • Creation

• I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Television

• Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Why
  • Always
  • Thought

• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City

• I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Live

• With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Art
  • Feeling
  • Fly

• Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

  

  James Caan
  • Done

• It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Rock
  • Attitude

• What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Real
  • Giving

• As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Power
  • Control

• I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.

  

  Katy Perry
  • Up
  • Money
  • Car

• Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Book

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Music
  • Playing

• 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
  • Money
  • Accepted
  • Scholarship