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Jim Henson

"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."

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"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."

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"It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan."

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"While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor."

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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."

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"My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'"

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