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Take what you got and fly with it.

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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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 the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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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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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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(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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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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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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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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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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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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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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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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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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