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Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.


Jim Brandt

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JIM CARREY I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
JIM HENSON Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t...
JIM HENSON Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON