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'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

• 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

• With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Model

• I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Good
  • Team
  • Management

• Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Up
  • Experience

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Knowledge

• No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Eye
  • Lightning
  • Flash

• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • You
  • Space

• I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

  

  Brian Helgeland
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

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

  

  Ryan Murphy
  • Movie
  • Popular