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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."
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"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."

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