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I write to be the characters that I am not.

Joss Whedon

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Joss Whedon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 23
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I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.
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I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
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I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.
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I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.
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Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!
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I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
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I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots-? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies! ...or maybe midgets.
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In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.
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Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.
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I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
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In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?
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Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.
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The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.
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Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.
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You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.
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Paul Hollywood's You're under baked is even better than You're fired.
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I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.
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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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Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.
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In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.
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