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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 Director
Film Producer
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Greenville
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James Maury Henson
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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 our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
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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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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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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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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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
