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

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

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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

Writing,

"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."

Reason,

"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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"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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"You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it."

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Rules,

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