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Jim Henson

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."

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"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses."

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Amber Hurdle

"My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself."

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Amber Hurdle

"Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England."

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Amber Hurdle

"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."

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Amber Hurdle

"In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."

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Amber Hurdle

"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

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Jim Henson
"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."

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Jim Henson
"I think my own strengths are in television production."

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Jim Henson
"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."

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Jim Henson
"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."

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Jim Henson
"Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price."

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Jim Henson
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."

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Jim Henson
"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one."

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Jim Henson
"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."

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Jim Henson
"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

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Jim Henson
"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."

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