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.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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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.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
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It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.
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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.
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As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.
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My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.
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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
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I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.
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I am too childlike to be immature.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
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Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
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What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've seen from my father transitioning into being a director, that's where the power lies. And, like he says, it's feast or famine for an actor. If you're not creating your own material, then you're just fighting for whatever's out there. I definitely have the desire to go to the other side.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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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.
