Caroll Spinney Quotes
Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I get bored easily.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
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If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
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Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
