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Michael Shanks

"By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly."

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"By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

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"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."

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"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

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"For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera."
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"I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year."
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"It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him."
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"In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years."
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"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience."
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"It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp."
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"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
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"It's fun to play the character and then watch him later."
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