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"But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques."
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"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
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"Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy."
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"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray."
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"It may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"A realist is a slave to reality."
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"The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind."
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"Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea."
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"Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists."
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"Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary."
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"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."
Friendship
"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."
Art
"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
Television
"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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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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"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
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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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"I think my own strengths are in television production."
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"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."
Money
"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
Competition
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