Ryan Murphy Quotes

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

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• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Possible

• If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Plan

• As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.

  

  Mark Shriver
  • Time
  • Children
  • Education

• Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Writing

• If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Life

• Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Work
  • God
  • Question

• If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

  

  Marc Blucas
  • Life

• I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Running

• Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Father
  • Feeling
  • Marriage

• While keeping active is a major aspect of staying fit, what you use for fuel definitely factors in.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson

• Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• In Chicago, we love our crooks!

  

  David Mamet
  • Chicago

• Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

  

  Paul Valery
  • People
  • Fire

• I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Single
  • Husband
  • Baby

• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Experience
  • Job

• I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • People
  • Writing
  • She

• It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

  

  John Woo
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

  

  Ryan Murphy
  • Movie
  • Popular