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high-wire act

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With this film I have made more money than any of my other films. It was a high-wire act. Kamal Haasan

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there. Chris Pine

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement? Douglas Wilson

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. Francis Ford Coppola

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