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" I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. "
Philippe Petit
Up
Know
I Am
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" This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way. "
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" The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. "
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" I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. "
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" If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it. "
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" I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action. "
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" Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. "
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" I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. "
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" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "
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" How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope. "
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" I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. "
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" Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish. "
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" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "
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" For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across. "
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" Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. "
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" Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers. "
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" I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail. "
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" In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog. "
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" I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. "
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" What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents. "
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