The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.
There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
The most important things are the hardest to say
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.