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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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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."
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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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"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 has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
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"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."
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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
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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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"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
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"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
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