Philippe Petit Quotes
I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
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Art must not serve might.
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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
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I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.
