Philippe Petit Quotes
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What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
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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.
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I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
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I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
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I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.
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Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.
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I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
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I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
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Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
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I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
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My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
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If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
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It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.
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Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
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I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
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Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
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When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
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I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
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I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
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I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
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Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.
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I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.