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"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."

"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."

"The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?"

"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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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."

"I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year."

"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."

"So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years."

"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."

"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."

"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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