Jim Henson Quotes
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.
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I'm drawn to bad romances.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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I really look up to Karlie Kloss.
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The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.'
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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Things always look better in the morning.
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When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.
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Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.
