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Jim Henson

"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."

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"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue."

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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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