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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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" I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike. "

" 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. "

" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "

" 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. "

" 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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