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"Parents are concerned that if kids see that a person operates the Muppet, an illusion will be shattered. But I think kids see us as just the people who carry their friends around."
PuppetryI had never worked with puppets before so just the concept of talking — Puppetry
"I had never worked with puppets before so just the concept of talking to this green, grungy-lookin rag comin out of a trash can was totally alien to me."
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Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets, the inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performance is also known as a puppet production. The script for a puppet production is called a puppet play. Puppeteers use movements from hands and arms to contro
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"A lot of people build very stiff puppets--you can barely move the thing--and you can get very little expression out of a character that you can barely move. Your hand has a lot of flexibility to it, and what you want to do is to build a puppet that can reflect all that flexibility."
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"Well, the thing to remember here is that my own personality has absolutely nothing to do with this weirdo."
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"Kids come to visit the [Sesame Street] studio and they and the puppets are old friends. Those puppets are in their living rooms every day. As soon as a puppet goes up on somebodys arm, the puppeteer ceases to exist. The child comes right up to talk to Grover or the Count. They dont look at the puppeteer. They dont look at the monitor."
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"It was interesting and kind of fun to do--but I wasnt really interested in puppetry then. It was just a means to an end."
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"When I hear the art of puppetry discussed, I often feel frustrated in that its one of those pure things that somehow becomes much less interesting when it is overdiscussed or analyzed."
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