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" I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror. "
Philippe Petit
Look
Fall
I Am
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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 was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. "
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" You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. "
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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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" 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 have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy. "
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" I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me. "
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" When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow. "
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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 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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" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "
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Dictionary
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" I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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