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You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Steven Moffat

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Steven Moffat
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
Executive Producer
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Teacher
Television Producer
Television Writer
Paisley
Renfrew
Steven William Moffat
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