Jim Henson Quotes

I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.

Jim Henson

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• I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

  

  M. Ward
  • Different
  • Country
  • Song

• International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Cooperation
  • International

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Better
  • Accept
  • Feedback

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Like
  • Goal

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Bargain

• Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Why

• BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Body

• I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Fan
  • Jewelry
  • Huge

• Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Effort

• It may be inverted snobbishness but I don't want old style, Old Etonian Tories of the old school to succeed me and go back to the old complacent, consensus ways. John Major is someone who has fought his way up from the bottom and is far more in tune with the skilled and ambitious and worthwhile working classes than Douglas Hurd is.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • School
  • May

• For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • World
  • God
  • Air

• We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

  

  Burt Ward
  • Women
  • Profound

• I am certainly humbled to receive the American Voice Award and join the ranks of so many people that I admire.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • American

• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Quality
  • Violence
  • Promising

• 'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when you feel like you or your work is a fluke and that you're a dwarf amongst giants. Many of us have this, especially when we're in some sort of creative industry.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Work
  • Home
  • Feeling

• I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.

  

  Jim Henson