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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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"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

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

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."

"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."

"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."

"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."

"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."

"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
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"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."

"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."

"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."

"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."

"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."

"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."
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