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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Jim Henson

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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
Animator
Film Director
Film Producer
Puppeteer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Greenville
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James Maury Henson
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Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
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All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.
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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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I hope that something better comes along.
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
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