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" I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write. "

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" I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible. "

" 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. "

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

" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "

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

" I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. "

" I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. "

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

" Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. "

" I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me. "

" 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 I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. "

" My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. "

" I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph. "