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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
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Film Producer
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Television Director
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James Maury Henson
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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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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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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
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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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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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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
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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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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If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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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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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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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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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Jim Henson
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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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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