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I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.
Don Mccullin
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Photojournalist
Life I Am My Life
Tightrope
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
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Novelist
Bed
Give Me
Life Always Me
Feather
Life Me Always
Give
Tightrope
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
Andrei A. Gromyko
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Abyss
Sword
Tightrope
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Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.
Sondra Radvanovsky
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Singing
Mine
Tightrope
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
Larry Wilcox
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Actor
Walking
Bore
Constantly
Instead
Tightrope
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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Journalist
Clever
Trading
Insider
Tightrope
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You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
Asif Kapadia
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Filmmaker
Likes
Towers
Wire
Twin
Tightrope
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Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
John Carney
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Walks
Crying
Tightrope
Uplifted
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
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Author
Encouragement
Happiness
Inspirational
Life
You Make Me Happy
Humor
Balance
Sense Of Humor
Steps
Life Walk Your
Adds
Walk
Pole
Tightrope
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Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
Douglas Wilson
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Pastor
Design
Excitement
Inches
Six
Wire
Designing
Tightrope
Walker
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Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.
Laura Van Den Berg
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Canvas
Paint
Tragedy
Bright
Speck
Tightrope
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn Vos Savant
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Columnist
New York
Skills
Towers
Trying
Walking
World Trade
World Trade Center
Center
Twin
Skill
Successfully
Tightrope
York
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If I went back to live-action, I'd have to do it the Pixar way. If I didn't, I'd feel like I was walking a tightrope without a net.
Lee Unkrich
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Film Director
Pixar
Net
Tightrope
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All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.
Alice Ripley
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Breathtaking
All Day
Hoops
Jump
Tightrope
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Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Brené Brown
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Author
Men
Shame
Vulnerable
Weak
Weakness
Looking
Afraid
Sign
Themselves
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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
Ben Kingsley
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Actor
Bad Habits
Character
Comedy
Fall
Irony
Stay True
Thinking
Allow
Habits
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When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
Georgia May Jagger
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Model
Abandoned
Balance
Dying
Younger
Animals
Bear
No Sense
Tightrope
Vet
Walker
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
Henri Matisse
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Artist
Able
Influence
Walks
Beginning
Firmly
Ground
Walk
In The Beginning
Subject
Tightrope
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In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
Jerry Lawler
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Professional Wrestler
Competition
Good Day
Mean
Reality
Walking
Time Good May
Tightrope
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I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.
David Guetta
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Disc Jockey
Dance
Happy
Inspirational
Music
Dance Music
People
Spread
Walk
Mission
More People
Tightrope
While
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For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.
The Edge
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Musician
Looking Back
Present Moment
Moment Me Looking
Move Forward
Tightrope
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I like to run and hike. I do some slack-lining, like balancing on the tightrope, which is really good for your entire body, but I've noticed a lot of benefits in my feet and ankles.
Jamie Anderson
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Ankles
Benefits
Good Your Body
Balancing
Hike
Noticed
Tightrope
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The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
Bryan Q. Miller
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Writer
Courage
Balance
Exceptional
Impeccable
Abide
Cook
Limb
Qualities
Task
Tightrope
Walker
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Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
Rosa Parks
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Activist
Birth
Crow
Jim Crow
Millions
States
United
United States
Walks
Life Done World
Criminal
Life Look World
Jim
Let Us
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The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
Kerry Bishe
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Film Actress
Juggling
Edit
Little Thing
Tightrope
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
Kabir Bedi
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Film Actor
Insecure
Profession
Standing
Net
Tightrope
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Isabella is a woman who kind of walks on a tightrope. She walks on that tightrope because in the 'Narcos' society that she was born in, it reflects all of the cultural things that society imposes.
Teresa Ruiz
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Walks
Cultural
Reflects
Tightrope
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
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Football Player
Leadership
Motivational
Sports
Consent
Leader
Powerful
Control
Close
Exert
Gap
Group
Walk
Himself
Longer
Tightrope
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The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
Michael Kors
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Fashion Designer
Consistent
Fashion
Inconsistent
Lessons
Needs
Surprise
Thread
Biggest Lesson
Lesson
Tightrope
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia Maclachlan
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Writer
Essence
Julius
Lester
My Friend
Picture Book
Text
Tightrope
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
Jackie Robinson
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Baseball Player
Cynical
Disillusionment
Enough
Protect
Slam
Too Much
Walking
Blacks
Door
Learn
Opportunities
Potential
Prevent
Themselves
Tightrope
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Chinese leaders are walking a tightrope in terms of maintaining internal stability so that the solid platform that has produced amazing results can continue to improve the quality of life for more of its citizens.
Neil Bush
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Maintaining
Quality Of Life
Stability
Internal
Solid
Produced
Tightrope
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My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
Eli Wallach
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Film Actor
Movie
Acting
Over It
Stage
Stage Acting
Wife
Again
Mechanical
Net
Says
Tightrope
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If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.
James Marsden
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Actor
Amount
Impress
Paid
Leading
Low
Sudden
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Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.
Joshua Bell
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Violinist
Conclusion
Tightrope
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I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
Georgia May Jagger
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Model
Abandoned
Animal
Balance
Dying
Entrepreneur
Ideas
Bear
Business Side
No Sense
Tightrope
Vet
Walker
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
D'angelo
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Singer-Songwriter
Commercialism
Insanity
Music Business
Art Business Music
Guns
Fine Line
Pressures
Sticking
Tightrope
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The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope walk - every sentence is a step along the rope, and you can so easily misplace your step and break your neck.
Kevin Barry
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Writer
Break
Natural
Rope
Short Story
Walk Always Your
Easily
Short
Walk
Mode
Quickly
Sentence
Step
Tightrope
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Being mixed in the South, that's a struggle that everybody deals with differently. Some people go careening to one side or the other, and some people try to walk a tightrope between the two. I grew up spending equal time with both sides of my family.
Rhiannon Giddens
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Both Sides
Deals
Sides
Mixed
Tightrope
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The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.
Evelyn Glennie
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Percussionist
Performers
Privacy
Walk Your Me
Allow
Huge Part
Plays
Tightrope
Walls
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
Victoria Pendleton
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Cyclist
Cycling
Work Together Me
Work Together Your
Numbered
Struggling
Tightrope
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In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.
Rebecca Hall
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Film Actress
Tragedy
Vice Versa
Gravitate
Tightrope
Tread
Versa
Vice
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.
Henri Nouwen
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Priest
Applause
Artist
Broken
Fallen
People
Waiting
Wounded
Cable
Leg
Thin
Tightrope
Tower
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Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.
Susan Barker
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Astonishing
Creating
Multiple
Novel
Protagonists
Towers
World Trade
World Trade Center
Great World Day
Center
Spectacle
Tightrope
Walked
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The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.
Matt Groening
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Cartoonist
Cartoon
Surprise
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?
Jeff Lemire
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Writer
Why Not
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
Nancy Kress
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Fiction Writer
Former
Human Condition
Latter
Unreal
Condition
Attempt
Author
Balancing
Brilliantly
Illuminate
Succeeds
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Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
Heinrich Rohrer
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Physicist
Experience
Science
Ambition
Arrogance
Blind
Blind Faith
Creativity
Curiosity
Epiphany
Expertise
Openness
Passion
Today
Tomorrow
Walking
Between
Constantly
Old
Short
Means
Tightrope
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I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.
Jason Segel
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Actor
Charming
Creepy
Scary
Someday
Villain
Old Men
Tightrope
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What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Author
Running
Wise
Baby
Circus
Multiplicity
Steady
Life Men Women
Balancing
Chair
Daily
Life Women Men
Pile
Tightrope
Warn
Wise Men
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