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I don't want'a die... I have other plans!

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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
Voice Actor
Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
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Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
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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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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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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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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 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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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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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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I hope that something better comes along.
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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 guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
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Take what you got and fly with it.
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