Philippe Petit Quotes
It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
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The Earth is incredibly beautiful.
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It's a very strange situation to be in when you have pictures of you topless everywhere and people thrusting them in your face all time.
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I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.
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It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
