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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
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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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It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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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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Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
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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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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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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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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
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The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
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