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We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.
It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.
'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.
Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'
It's good to know the guy who's holding onto your wire is someone you trust and you know he's not going to let you fall.
Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.
Working with Vic Reeves in a beautiful English field surrounded by loads of chicken wire - it's every person's dream job.
I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.
Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.
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'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency.
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
Not everything has to be 'The Bridge' or 'The Wire'. Those shows are brilliant. But you have to invest your cerebellum in them.
I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.
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.
I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.
At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
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.
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.
You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
'The Wire' is similar to 'The Walking Dead' in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning point of the story.
We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.
I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes to eat a lot of steak.
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.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.
I have a braided metal wire going down the middle of my chest underneath my skin. I saw it on an X-ray of it; it looks like a piece of jewelry.