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Amy: Can I come? Doctor: Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back. Amy: People always say that. Doctor: Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.

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Steven Moffat
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
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Peter Capaldi, will always be Doctor Who. You retain the title forever. Ask your predecessors, they all think they're the real one. I've had Sunday lunch with Peter Davidson and David Tennant and they're eyeing each other like, 'It's me!
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[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
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It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
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Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
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What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
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You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
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Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.
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The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.
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Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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Rule 1: The Doctor lies.
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Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
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Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
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Always take a banana to a party.
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If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.
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Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.
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