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My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.
Dwayne Johnson
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It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
Philippe Petit
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There are times when I've had ideas walking down the street that I thought were great, and the minute I got onstage, I would think of them and go, 'Wow, that would never work,' even before I did it in front of the audience.
Gilbert Gottfried
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I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!
Shakuntala Devi
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I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
Philippe Petit
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
Philippe Petit
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If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
Thomas Perez
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I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
Patrick Ewing
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In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.
Hideo Kojima
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It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.


Raymond Kelly
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I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.


Morrissey
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!


Victoria Beckham
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I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
Missi Pyle
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
Patch Adams
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Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.
Gloria Vanderbilt
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I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.
Lesley Manville
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I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you're walking down the street.
Johnny Weir
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Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.
Nina Arianda
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I feel I could be walking down the street, and if somebody talked to me, I could just slot into 'Miss Marple' and know how she would react.
Geraldine McEwan
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore
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