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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.

Steven Moffat

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Steven Moffat
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
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Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.
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I don't want to think that the stories are finite I want to feel that they can go on forever.
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Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.
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I always tend to favor the newer idea.
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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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When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.
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Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.
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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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Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
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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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If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.
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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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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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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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Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
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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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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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