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My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

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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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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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I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
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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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You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
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There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.
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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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Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
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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'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
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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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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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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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You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
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Always take a banana to a party.
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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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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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Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.
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I always tend to favor the newer idea.
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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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When man invented fire, he didn't say, Hey, let's cook. He said, Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
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