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Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
Joss Whedon
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Joss Whedon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 23
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Joseph Hill Whedon
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The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
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Shiny, let's be bad guys!
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This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.
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I'm very much of the make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
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Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.
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When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.
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The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.
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I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.
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I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.
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I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!
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You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.
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I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.
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I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds.
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Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
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It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.
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