Learn your roots. Then take what works for you, what is meaningful. Nancy Staub has rightfully earned a tremendous amount of respect not only for her work in and dedication to the field of puppetry but for being a remarkable person of outstanding character. Frank Ballard considers her to be a great business woman who knows what to do, how to do it, where to go, and what to say when she gets there. She's been a major player.
Any art form is only as good as the artist who produces it.
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