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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Puppeteer
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Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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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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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
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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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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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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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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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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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