Jim Henson Quotes

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.

Jim Henson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: entertainer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990

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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

Joe Bonamassa

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Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can always reach out to smooth a stray hair. And yet, at a certain point, I must walk away, trusting them to do their work. I am left looking over my shoulder, wondering if I might have structured one more effectively.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

Medgar Evers

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I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

Andrew Haigh

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Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Jeff Ross

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If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

Michael Cunningham

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I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.

John Waters

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We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Robert Zemeckis

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My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Michelle Magorian

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I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

Antonia Thomas

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You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

Anne Hathaway

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