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

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
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Steven William Moffat
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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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Rule 1: The Doctor lies.
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I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
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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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[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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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
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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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You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
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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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If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
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I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
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I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
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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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All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.
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You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
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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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What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.
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