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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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"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."
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"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
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"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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"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."
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"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
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"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."
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"The weather in England can really darken your spirits."
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"And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed."
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"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."
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"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
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"I think my own strengths are in television production."
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"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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"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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"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities."
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"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
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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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"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."
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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
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"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
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"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."
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