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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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
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Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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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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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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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Take what you got and fly with it.
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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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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(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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All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
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I hope that something better comes along.
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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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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.
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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've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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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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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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