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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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Asa Don Brown

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

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Asa Don Brown

"He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior."

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Asa Don Brown

"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

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Asa Don Brown

"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

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Asa Don Brown

"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."

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Asa Don Brown

"There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable."

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Asa Don Brown

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

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Asa Don Brown

"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."

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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 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."

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

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

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