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Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.
Jamie Hyneman
Time
Together
Consider
Spend
Ourselves
Friends
Any
Adam
In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.
Jeff Probst
You
Integrity
Own
Draw
Rules
Moral
Would
About
No Rules
Could
Fee
Lines
Survivor
Get
Where
Ethical
Your
Away
The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
Jeff Probst
Me
You
Change
Most
Surprises
Cannot
Who
Thing
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
Jeff Probst
Creative
First
Own
Control
Destiny
Possible
Direct
My Own
Write
Stuff
Still
Goal
Whenever
Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.
Jeff Probst
You
Everyone
Way
Find
Talk
Got
Get
Just
Wants
Them
Every day I get more and more honest.
Jeff Probst
Day
Every Day
Every
More
More And More
Get
Honest
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Jeff Smith
Good
Simple
Vegetables
Please
Threaten
Understand
Taste
Just
Chinese
Them
Cook
Reason
Why
It's good to do something for Americans for once.
Jeff Smith
Good
Once
Something
American
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson
Character
You
People
Complicated
Made
Enormous
Months
Several
Range
Puppet
Easy
About
Could
Generalities
Take
Days
Make
Talking
Real
Doing
Hand
Quick
Controls
Little
Might
Radio
Large
Number
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson
Competition
Style
Own
Everybody
General
Between
Because
Much
Working
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson
Time
Me
Remember
First
Own
Astronomical
My Own
Week
Higher
Price
Put
Well
Got
Yeah
Contract
Which
Little
Really
Working
Show
Started
By The Time
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson
Needs
Will
Somebody
Several
Like
Versions
Them
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
Jim Henson
Local
Back
Those
Television
Stations
Variety
Had
Days
Like
Most
Housewives
Midday
Afternoon
Little
Show
Series
Things
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.
Jim Henson
Art
Theatre
First
Year
Stage
Design
Television
Maryland
Major
Because
Off
Interested
Planning
Started
University
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Jim Henson
Time
You
Respect
Before
Other
Point
Stuff
Polaroid
Couple
Sort
Opinion
Doing
Commercials
Did
Just
Stopped
Where
Your
Thing
Level
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson
Remember
Black
Black And White
White
Sets
Programming
Local
Though
Color
Major
Know
Although
Sale
Encourage
Trying
Did
Difference
Convert
Working
Barely
NBC
Away
Right
Right Away
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson
Color
Difference
Anything
Us
Working
England
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.
Jim Henson
Characters
About
Something
Only
Like
Most
Particularly
Talk
Articles
Just
Information
Your
Actually
Copies
I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim Henson
Own
Think
Television
My Own
Production
Strengths
Far and away, the question I'm asked most often is, 'What's your favorite sporting event to call?' I can't say I've ever answered the question well, simply because the three biggest events I broadcast for CBS Sports - the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men's Final Four and the Masters - each are incomparable.
Jim Nantz
Sports
Events
Men
Three
Final
Broadcast
Say
Favorite
Super
Super Bowl
Simply
Most
Bowl
Sporting Event
Well
Call
Masters
Because
Answered
Question
Often
Biggest
Far
Asked
Your
Each
Event
Away
Ever
Incomparable
Four
I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.
Jim Nantz
Work
Day
Overcome
Those
One Day
Voices
Idea
Masters
Cover
Just
Wanted
I want Alzheimer's. I want Lou Gehrig's disease. I want Parkinson's. I want Huntington's. I want to be the face and voice of all these neurological traumas. I want them all.
Jim Nantz
Face
Voice
Neurological
Parkinson
Alzheimer
Disease
Want
Them
Golf is a central part of my life and I look forward to working with the great folks at Vineyard Vines to create an authentic golf apparel brand that speaks to the golfer.
Jim Nantz
Life
Great
My Life
Folks
Part
Look
Brand
Authentic
Golf
Central
Golfer
Create
Working
Speaks
Apparel
Forward
Vines
Vineyard
How can we grow the game? It's a conversation in every sport, how do you tap into the millennials? Golf is no different.
Jim Nantz
You
Game
Conversation
Every
Sport
How
Tap
Different
Golf
Grow
Millennials
We want the game to be attractive to a new audience, but you have to be careful because there are certain traditions this game upholds. Silence over the swing, that's always been there. That's not understood by those who don't play golf.
Jim Nantz
Silence
You
Game
Those
Be Careful
Over
New
Attractive
Because
Audience
Always
Understood
Been
Traditions
Want
Golf
Certain
Who
Swing
Play
Play Golf
Careful
Lance Barrow's a great producer and we work together exceptionally well.
Jim Nantz
Work
Great
Together
Exceptionally
Well
Work Together
Producer
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