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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.

Steven Moffat

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Steven Moffat
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
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