Jim Henson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
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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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“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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“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”
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“If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.”
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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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“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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“I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.”
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“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”
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“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”
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“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”
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“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
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“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.”
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“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
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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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“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”
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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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“Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.”
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“The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.”
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“Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.”
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“Take what you got and fly with it.”
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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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“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.”
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“The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.”
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“I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.”
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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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“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.”
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“No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.”
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