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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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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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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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Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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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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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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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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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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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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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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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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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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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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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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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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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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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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