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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

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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
Wings
Boys
Cara
Flies

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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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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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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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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
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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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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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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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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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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 anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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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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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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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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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 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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