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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
Actor
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Film Producer
Puppeteer
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Greenville
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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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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
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I hope that something better comes along.
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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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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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Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
Jim Henson
The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
Jim Henson
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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