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Michael Shanks

"I've always found ways to bend the rules."

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Akiroq Brost

"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

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Akiroq Brost

"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."

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Akiroq Brost

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

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Akiroq Brost

"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."

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Akiroq Brost

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

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Akiroq Brost

"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."

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Akiroq Brost

"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?"

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Akiroq Brost

"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."

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Michael Shanks
"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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Michael Shanks
"I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is."

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Michael Shanks
"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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Michael Shanks
"It's fun to play the character and then watch him later."

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Michael Shanks
"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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Michael Shanks
"It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him."

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Michael Shanks
"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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Michael Shanks
"There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart."

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Michael Shanks
"I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show."

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Michael Shanks
"There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over."

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