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There was a time when fire an...

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.

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If I am practicing on the wir...

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

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I rendezvous with the long wi...

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

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I was born in a world of oper...

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

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My first walk illegally at 20...

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

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As a high wire walker, I do n...

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

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It would be very, very danger...

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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In my life, I wanted to meet ...

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

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My parents wanted me to have ...

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

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My time is always divided whe...

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

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When I was learning by myself...

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

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It is very normal for people ...

It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.

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If I had been born in the cir...

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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Talking about theater, actual...

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain.

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Certainly, in the story of my...

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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Of course, the slightest litt...

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

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I started very early, from fi...

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

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There is a child inside me th...

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

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I found out that total creati...

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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I have a fear of water, belie...

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.

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