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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
Animator
Film Director
Film Producer
Puppeteer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Greenville
Mississippi
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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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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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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If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
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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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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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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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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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I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
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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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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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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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When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
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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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