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If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
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James Maury Henson
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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
I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.
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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 believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.
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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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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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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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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
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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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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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I hope that something better comes along.
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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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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.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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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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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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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!
Jim Henson
