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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We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock.

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excited tears thinking

Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.

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running war children

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

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really-cool generations children

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

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audience news assuming

I like naked women! I'm a bloke! I'm supposed to like them! We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one... When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms.

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struggle dark men

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

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genius mind looks

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

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awful care people

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

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just-give-up giving-up running

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

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library book world

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

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ends stories knows

[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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doctors mean children

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

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hello might men

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

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wasting-time boss waste

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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strong-women character ideas

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

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tv-shows emotional real

We're all stories, in the end.

Steven Moffat

doctor-who ends stories

The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.

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falling-in-love hero war

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

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moments ifs exciting

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

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doctors believe thinking

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

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immature ifs