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Jim Henson

"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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"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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"An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members."

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"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."

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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

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"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
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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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"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, 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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"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."
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"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
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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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"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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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."
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