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

Network

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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

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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Aberjhani

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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Aberjhani

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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Aberjhani

"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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Aberjhani

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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Aberjhani

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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Aberjhani

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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Aberjhani

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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Aberjhani

"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

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Aberjhani

"I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint."

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