"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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"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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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

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Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There is a time when even justice brings harm."

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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

"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."

Difference

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

Needs

"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."

Information

"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."

Realism

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

Interest

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

Competition

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

Competition

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

England

"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."

Giving