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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

Yeah, he certainly comes across that way.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

No, apparently not at all. So there's a lot of quotes in this article. I thought John Strickland wrote it. It turns out that's not the case. I'm surprised. Because he's friends with, or down with at least, one of Jim Henson's kids. Oh, really? Who I believe lives here in Atlanta. Oh, wow. But in this article, it's one of those things where everybody who compliments Jim Henson, who worked with him,

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

No, apparently not at all. So there's a lot of quotes in this article. I thought John Strickland wrote it. It turns out that's not the case. I'm surprised. Because he's friends with, or down with at least, one of Jim Henson's kids. Oh, really? Who I believe lives here in Atlanta. Oh, wow. But in this article, it's one of those things where everybody who compliments Jim Henson, who worked with him,

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

No, apparently not at all. So there's a lot of quotes in this article. I thought John Strickland wrote it. It turns out that's not the case. I'm surprised. Because he's friends with, or down with at least, one of Jim Henson's kids. Oh, really? Who I believe lives here in Atlanta. Oh, wow. But in this article, it's one of those things where everybody who compliments Jim Henson, who worked with him,

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

They go to the trouble of complimenting him in a way that's not just like, oh, he was such a great guy. Yeah. They all back up just a little bit because they're cognizant that that doesn't get it across. Sure. And they want you to understand that... They're talking about more than just the great guy like, oh, he's dead and I'm not going to speak ill of the dead.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

They go to the trouble of complimenting him in a way that's not just like, oh, he was such a great guy. Yeah. They all back up just a little bit because they're cognizant that that doesn't get it across. Sure. And they want you to understand that... They're talking about more than just the great guy like, oh, he's dead and I'm not going to speak ill of the dead.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

They go to the trouble of complimenting him in a way that's not just like, oh, he was such a great guy. Yeah. They all back up just a little bit because they're cognizant that that doesn't get it across. Sure. And they want you to understand that... They're talking about more than just the great guy like, oh, he's dead and I'm not going to speak ill of the dead.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

And he was a great guy and that's a really thoughtless, polite, inoffensive thing to say. So like Frank Oz said something like he was a great guy, but at the same time, you know, he was a human. But he was still a really great guy. Right. So, like, what you're thinking of as a great guy, get rid of that and actually replace it with a genuine human great guy.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

And he was a great guy and that's a really thoughtless, polite, inoffensive thing to say. So like Frank Oz said something like he was a great guy, but at the same time, you know, he was a human. But he was still a really great guy. Right. So, like, what you're thinking of as a great guy, get rid of that and actually replace it with a genuine human great guy.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

And he was a great guy and that's a really thoughtless, polite, inoffensive thing to say. So like Frank Oz said something like he was a great guy, but at the same time, you know, he was a human. But he was still a really great guy. Right. So, like, what you're thinking of as a great guy, get rid of that and actually replace it with a genuine human great guy.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

It's like everybody relax. It's just millions of dollars.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

It's like everybody relax. It's just millions of dollars.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

It's like everybody relax. It's just millions of dollars.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

Yeah, and I read, I guess it was a book review of a biography about him that showed that it was all, somebody said it was all just play to him. Yeah. Like work was play. Yeah. Even though he worked really hard. Uh-huh. he was able to commit himself like that to his work because to him he was having the time of his life all the time.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

Yeah, and I read, I guess it was a book review of a biography about him that showed that it was all, somebody said it was all just play to him. Yeah. Like work was play. Yeah. Even though he worked really hard. Uh-huh. he was able to commit himself like that to his work because to him he was having the time of his life all the time.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

Yeah, and I read, I guess it was a book review of a biography about him that showed that it was all, somebody said it was all just play to him. Yeah. Like work was play. Yeah. Even though he worked really hard. Uh-huh. he was able to commit himself like that to his work because to him he was having the time of his life all the time.

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Selects: How Jim Henson Worked

And apparently there was no line between work and play, which now that we've seen that sensitivity training could have gotten him in a lot of trouble. But he just enjoyed the life that he had from what I understand. Loved cars. He had like a Lotus that was the same color as Kermit the Frog. Mm-hmm. Um, he had a, a Rolls Royce early on from his work. Yeah.