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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
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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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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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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Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
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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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I hope that something better comes along.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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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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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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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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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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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 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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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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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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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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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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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