Jim Henson Quotes
With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
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Marystown, in Newfoundland, it's where began for me. It's where most of my family still lives and where a lot of my supporters are from.
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I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
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With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.
