Trapeze Quotes

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Aquariums, Flying

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• I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Couple, Years, Class

  "“Undercover Brother”: Neil Patrick Harris Interview". "Hollywood.com" Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• [My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

  Dan Rather

  Jobs, Trapeze Artists

  "Sign-Off: The long and complicated career of Dan Rather" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2005.

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• The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.

  Paul Tournier

  Letting Go, Home, Artist

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• My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

  Colin Meloy

  Mother, Father, War

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• My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Letting Go, Air, Moments

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• A circus of stars,
  your dreams a trapeze, faces
  lift like mirrored moons.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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• It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Peace, Growth

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• Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.

  Dave Liebman

  Art, Men, Two

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• Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

  Christian Louboutin

  Dream, Shoes, Drawing

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• Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Reality, Flying

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• You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Artist, People

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

  Beverly Sills

  Artist, Careers, Triumph

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• The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

  Neon Hitch

  First Love, Firsts, Normal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

  Tom Waits

  Artist, Fearless, World

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• I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

  Sara Bareilles

  Fall, Sky, Focus

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

  Orson Welles

  Play, Way, Classic

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• There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Kids, Safety

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• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

  Celia Imrie

  Live Life, Actors, Circus

  Celia Imrie (2011). “The Happy Hoofer”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

  Natalia Tena

  Art, Three, Want

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• I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

  Nat Hentoff

  Lawyer, Wanted, Performers

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

  Bob Dylan

  Poet, Trapeze Artists

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Sometimes, you run into trouble as an actor when you're not working with someone who is collaborative or doesn't bring themselves to the piece, and you sort of have to start worrying about yourself and protecting what works for you in the scene. I never had to do that in this movie because it was sort of this trapeze act.

  Josh Peck

  Running, Worry, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

  Tori Amos

  Religious, Brother, Law

  Song: Muhammad My Friend, Album: Boys for Pele

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