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If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that. ↗

— Ken Hensley

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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. ↗

— Jim Henson

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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends. ↗

— Jim Henson

#anybody #competition #felt #friends #good

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. ↗

— Jim Henson

#bag #believe #create #into #itself

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style. ↗

— Jim Henson

#between #competition #everybody #general #much

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them. ↗

— Jim Henson

#needs #several #somebody #them #versions

Never complain. Never explain. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#explain #never #never complain #never explain

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. ↗

— Jim Henson

#college #did #doing #fairly #first

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price. ↗

— Jim Henson

#by the time #contract #first #got #higher

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

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