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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Death frames the high wire. B...

Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

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Why does almost every ad agen...

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

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I usually practice on a small...

I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.

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When I perform outside, the m...

When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.

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You can always find a way to ...

You can always find a way to do something. Now, of course, when I do the action, it's an action that inspires people, it's a gift to people, it's not the other way around, I do not take something, I do not hurt people. Yes, I think today would be more than impossible and yet part of me would think that I continue to think that nothing is impossible.

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Whenever other worlds invite ...

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

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On one side, the mass of a mo...

On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

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I have walked many times arou...

I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.

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I am very sensitive to all fo...

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

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