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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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"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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"I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do."

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"It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters."

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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

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"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."

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"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."

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"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

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"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."

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