Joss Whedon Quotes

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• If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart,…
• If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.
• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand…
• When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me.…
• If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene,…
• Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...…
• People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle…
• My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
• People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.
• Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.
• The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.
• Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.
• Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a…
• If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great…
• Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.
• Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
• You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through…
• I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing
• If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till…
• You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

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