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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
Cara
Flies
Wings
Boys

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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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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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 our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
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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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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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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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All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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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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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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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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 guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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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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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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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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