Philippe Petit Quotes
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.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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The fantastic thing about 'Jasper Jones' is that although it's set in 1969, the themes are still so topical. We're still struggling with racism and sexism and domestic violence and abuse.
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The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
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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.
