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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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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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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
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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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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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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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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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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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All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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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've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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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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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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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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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!
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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