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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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"Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key."
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"The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology."

"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop."

"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
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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."

"NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though."

"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."

"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."

"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."

"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."

"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."

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

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

"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing."
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