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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
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Film Producer
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
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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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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.
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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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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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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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(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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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
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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.
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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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I hope that something better comes along.
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my 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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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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