#wire

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time ↗

— Lisa Cron

#on-writing #storytelling #wired-for-story #writing #writing-myths

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people. ↗

— J Allard

#big #big deal #couch #deal #floor

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#dream #i #mine #old #recreate

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#barriers #bit #cross #doing #film

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. ↗

— Ted Turner

#be happy #cell #cell phone #first #happy

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#been #better #craved #did #emotion

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#commercials #could #hell #i #news

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#around #believe #canada #feet #go

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#backyard #conditions #hard #i #train

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#doing #i #me #natural #people