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Jim Henson

"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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"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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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

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"There is a time when even justice brings harm."

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"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."
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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."
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"But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques."
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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 never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
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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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"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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"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
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"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."
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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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