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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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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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Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
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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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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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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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