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Philippe Petit Quotes

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: french
Birth: August 13, 1949

Topics

Walking Street High Been Performing

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

Joaquin Phoenix

Character Heroism Him Audience Up

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

Live Time People Society Interesting

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

Melanie Griffith

Story View Point Of View Wrong Way

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

Robert M. La Follette

War Party Will Reason Make After

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

Alone Free Peaceful Want Left Am

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.

Beautiful Words Down I Can Something

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Feel Understand Randomness Still

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

Fear Doing Guilty Lucky Got Just

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

Talent Said Done More Everything

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Douglas Alexander

Hope Politics Dare Say Sense

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

Family Artist Down Person Kind Line

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Terrorism Rare Failures Ourselves

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