Top 29 Jane Espenson Quotes

#1. I think people look back on shows like "Firefly" or "Buffy," and they remember it with this glow about it of positive response, but if you look back ... If Twitter had existed, there would have been a lot of negative tweeting about "Firefly."

Jane Espenson

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#2. I know I'm not great at structure and story.

Jane Espenson

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#3. Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

Seth Lloyd

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#4. Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Jane Espenson

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#5. Unconditional Love is a perpetual emotion machine. It inspires us to include others. The longer I am bathed in its radiance, the more I find myself looking at others with an open heart. I can look past their faults and love them. I can say, "I may not like the things you do, but I love you.

Rosa Marchisella

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#6. Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Lord Chesterfield

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#7. You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it ... Love is pain ... Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature.

Jane Espenson

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#8. We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.

Jane Espenson

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#9. If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

Jane Espenson

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#10. That's how it is with infants. The minute the pain's gone, so are the tears. If more people would do that, the world would be a happier place.

Susan Wiggs

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#11. It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Jane Espenson

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#12. In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life - what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

Jane Espenson

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#13. If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Jane Espenson

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#14. I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking Well, maybe this is a time loop

Jane Espenson

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#15. Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

Jane Espenson

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#16. I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

Helen Fielding

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#17. Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.

Jane Espenson

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#18. Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

Jane Espenson

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#19. The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.

Jane Espenson

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#20. I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Jane Espenson

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#21. DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

Jane Espenson

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#22. While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

Ani DiFranco

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#23. Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

Jane Espenson

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#24. I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

Jane Espenson

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#25. You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

Jane Espenson

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#26. Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again.

Jane Espenson

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#27. Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

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#28. I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

Jane Espenson

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#29. I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films.

Craig Roberts

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