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It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'
The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.
As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.
The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
I was supposed to be in 'The Wire' but I was getting in trouble in school and on the streets.
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.
I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.
'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.
[Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.
The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
When it comes to Baltimore I want to say that it's actually a lot worse than what you see in 'The Wire.'
I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.