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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.
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Director
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Greenville
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James Maury Henson
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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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Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.
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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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I hope that something better comes along.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.
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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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All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
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If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
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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.
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A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
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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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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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