When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
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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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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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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
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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.
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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.
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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
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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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When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
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