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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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"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."

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"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."

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"Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989."

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

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"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."

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

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