"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; â€˜Star Trekâ€™ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"

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Source : "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

Harlan Ellison

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“I was never a kid who dreamt of being a performer. I started singing the songs because nobody knew who I was or cared at all. If I wasn't going to sing them, nobody was going to sing them, so I had to step in and fill that role myself.”
“The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.”
“In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.”
“The word beauty is unavoidable â€¦ it accounts for my decision to photograph â€¦ There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight â€¦ through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”
“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”
“I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of those people who didn't go to church, but when I got in trouble I kinda pleaded with God - whoever that was.”
“Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.”
“If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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