Trapeze Artists Quotes

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

  Dan Rather

  Jobs, Trapeze

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

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

  Bob Dylan

  Poet, Trapeze

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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