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Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

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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
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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.
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Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
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Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!
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Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
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Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.
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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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I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
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There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me
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I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
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Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
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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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Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.
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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
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Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.
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You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
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Rule 1: The Doctor lies.
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Always take a banana to a party.
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An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.
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