American - Entertainer | September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
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The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
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It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
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Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
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Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
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You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
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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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When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
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There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
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