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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. "

Philippe Petit

Death

Life

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Know

I Am

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

" 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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Tell

Stories

" My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order. "

" Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution. "

" I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life. "

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

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

Philippe Petit

Walk

Anywhere

" It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times. "

" 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. "

" Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers. "

" 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. "

Philippe Petit

Nobody

Grand Canyon

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules. "

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

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

" Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. "

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

Philippe Petit

First

Higher

" When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box. "

" 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. "

Philippe Petit

You

Tragedy

" 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. "

" Passion is the motto of all my actions. "

" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "