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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
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(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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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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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
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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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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
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Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!
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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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