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When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.
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When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
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When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
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When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The Critic as Artist (1891) -
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel certain that they mean something else.
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Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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