Ryan Murphy Quotes
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
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Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
