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" 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. "
Philippe Petit
Action
Me
Think
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" I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. "
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" I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. "
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" 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. "
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" If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics. "
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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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" Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain. "
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" 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. "
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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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" On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied. "
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" When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible. "
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" 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. "
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" Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. "
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" There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time. "
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" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "
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" It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. "
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" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "
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" The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life. "
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" On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen. "
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" Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk. "
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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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