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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
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James Maury Henson
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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!
Jim Henson
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Jim Henson
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson
I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
Jim Henson
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.
Jim Henson
If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
Jim Henson
Take what you got and fly with it.
Jim Henson
