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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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Asa Don Brown

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

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Asa Don Brown

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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Asa Don Brown

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

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Asa Don Brown

"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."

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Asa Don Brown

"We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'"

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Asa Don Brown

"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."

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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."

Writing

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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."

Job

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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."

Science

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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."

Reason

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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."

Feelings

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

Rules

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

People

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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
"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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