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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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 Producer
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Greenville
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James Maury Henson
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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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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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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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I hope that something better comes along.
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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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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.
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