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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

Jim Henson

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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
Muppet
Promised
Guess
Anyone
Wrong
Never

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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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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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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 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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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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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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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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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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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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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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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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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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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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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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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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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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