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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.
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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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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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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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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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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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
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Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
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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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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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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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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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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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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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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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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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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 hope that something better comes along.
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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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