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" I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore. "

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" It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it. "

" My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker. "

" It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years. "

" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "

" If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be. "

" When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible. "

" I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out. "

" If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire. "

" I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection. "

" It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me. "

" I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. "

" I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life. "

" As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler. "

" It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label. "

" I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get. "

" I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step. "

" Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk. "

" 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. "

" I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear. "

" 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. "

" I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. "

" Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do. "

" I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. "

" If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk. "

" I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me. "

" For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera. "

" 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. "

" I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. "

" I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say. "

" There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults. "