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Michael Shanks

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

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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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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."

Character

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Michael Shanks
"With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable."

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

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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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Michael Shanks
"The environment on set is very encouraging."

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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
"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
"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."

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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
"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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Aberjhani

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Aberjhani

"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."

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Aberjhani

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

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Aberjhani

"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."

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Aberjhani

"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

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Aberjhani

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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Aberjhani

"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."

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Aberjhani

"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."

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Aberjhani

"One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history. It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants."

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Aberjhani

"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."

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