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Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
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
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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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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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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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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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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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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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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.
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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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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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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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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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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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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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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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