High Wire Quotes - Page 1

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Christine Baranski / Actress
Acting
Errors
Slim
Wire
Act
High
Error
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Margin
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I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Poet
Stuntman
Theatrical
Wire
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It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Treacherous
Wire
Change Focus Look
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Suddenly
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I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Profession
Walks
Wire
Alike
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As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Wire
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Walker
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I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Arrested
Illegal
Performing
Wire
Street
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I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Juggling
Magic
Thrown
Wire
Different Schools
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The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Wire
Greatest Thing
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Net
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Circus
Satisfied
Tricks
Wire
Master
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If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
Tom Perez /
Car
Car Accident
Poverty
Safety
Safety Net
Wire
Accident
Away
High
High Wire
Net
Proposition
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Taking Risks
Wire
Frames
High Wire
Preparations
Seeker
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Certitude
Wire
Blown
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Winds
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Opera
Wire
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My happiest moments are when I'm on my high wire with the Johnny Carsons of the world. I don't have that opportunity if I'm doing other people's scripts.
Mariette Hartley / Actress
Scripts
Wire
Opportunity World People
Happiest
Johnny
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Poet
Absurdity
Audience
Climbs
Poet
Rhyme
Rhyming
Wire
Above
Constantly
Heads
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Performs
Risking
Whenever
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Circus
Wire
High Wire
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Normal
Terrified
Wire
High Wire
So Many Years
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey / Media Proprietor
Inspirational
Inspiring
Motivational
Failure
Money
One Thing
Wire
Time Moment Your
Thing
Again
Never
Try
Own
Those
Cannot
High
Fail
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Moment
Mount
Second
The One Thing
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel / Pianist
March
Musician
Norm
Safety
Safety Net
Walking
Wire
Beat
Drummers
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Historically
Musicians
Net
Outside
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You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
Charles Durning / Actor
Audience
Believe
Fearless
Minutes
Wire
Life Work Believe
High Wire
Net
Operate
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I walked on a high wire at Battersea power station for Comic Relief in 2011. It was the scariest but the most exciting moment. I hated being on it but as soon as I stepped off I was desperate to get back on and do it again!
Helen Skelton /
Comic Relief
Desperate
Hated
Relief
Wire
High Wire
Scariest
Station
Stepped
Walked
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy / Author
Journey
Carpentry
Intellect
Invited
Wire
Life Great Myself
Chose
Explain
High Wire
Join
Readers
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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.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Magic
Performing
Wire
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One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.
Mike Huckabee / Former Governor Of Arkansas
Wire
Campaign
High Wire
Inadvertently
Intentionally
Net
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Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
Tom Hanks / Actor
Acting
Fun
High School
Indulge
Plus
Rings
Scary
School
Walking
Wire
Best Work Always
Bell
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Interests
Producer
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Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
Geoffrey Zakarian / Chef
Cooking
Covering
Wire
Acts
Fish
Hard Thing
High Wire
Properties
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If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the Royal Albert Hall: to leave self-obsession behind and take the audience on a journey across the high wire of Beethoven or the flying trapeze of Liszt.
Stephen Hough /
Ambition
Ecstasy
Flying
Royal
Trapeze
Wings
Wire
Albert
Beethoven
Hall
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
Peter Morgan / Film Writer
Evolve
New Things
Possibility
Virtue
Wire
High Wire
Occurs
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