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High Wire Quotes
Walking a high wire is as much a metaphor as a physical act, standing in for any risk taken in public view. This collection of high wire quotes brings together performers and artists reflecting on failure, courage, and the strange beauty of never knowing if the next step will hold.
Every high wire walker understands that risk and Art are inseparable once you climb that high above the crowd.
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I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
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