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Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

~Jim Henson

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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.

~Jim Henson

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The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

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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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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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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

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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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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

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Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

~Jim Henson

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NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: September 24th, 1936

Died: May 16th, 1990

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