“Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.”

—  Jim Henson

In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

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American puppeteer 1936–1990

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