Caroll Spinney Quotes
I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
Quotes to Explore
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
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If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.
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Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.
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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
