Jeff Lemire

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

Canadian Artist

Henri Nouwen

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Dutch Clergyman

James Marsden

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.

American Actor

Jackie Robinson

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

American Baseball Player

Kabir Bedi

Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

Indian Actor

Henri Matisse

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

French Artist

Brene Brown

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

American Author

William Arthur Ward

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

American Writer

Edith Wharton

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Don McCullin

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

British Photographer

Used to describe a circus or acrobatic performance, often showcasing skill and balance.

Entertainment Context

Sometimes used metaphorically to represent maintaining balance in challenging situations.

Metaphorical Balance

Implies a high level of skill, careful practice, and concentration, much like an acrobat.

Requires Skill

As an idiom, it describes a situation requiring caution as if balancing on a narrow rope.

Metaphorical Use

Used to express the need for precise actions to avoid negative outcomes in sensitive situations.

Caution and Precision

Conveys a feeling of tension or stress one might experience in a precarious situation.

Stress and Tension

 How do we respect someone's religious beliefs while still holding them accountable for the harm or damage that those beliefs may cause others? It's a tough question. I still don't have a perfect answer. My parents and I have been walking on this tightrope for the last decade. They're intelligent people. They're lovely people.

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 from clowns to carnies, all of these miles ahead of who we were. We were freaks -- lobster-claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.

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 know the biology and kind of what makes them tick we know the numbers of coyotes that we have to remove in order to get rid of them for instance we know that we're not going to be able to get there what wildlife managers have to do is walk that tightrope between the two the spreader paradox is this issue where we

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 the other side of the solar there's our rock climbers you can see two of them on the rocks and then you can see one on the tightrope he enjoyed the solar eclipse from the tightrope and can you see the crowd underneath cheering him on okay we're talking about having a once-in-a-lifetime experience what about

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 but doing deliberate practice. And fourth, we must be in a low-stakes situation, because if mistakes are to be expected, then the consequence of making them must not be catastrophic, or even very significant. A tightrope walker doesn't practice new tricks without a net underneath,

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 And over many months, meeting with the band and their creative teams, this is the sketch that kept recurring, this line, this street, the street that connects the band's past with their present, the tightrope that they walk as activists and artists, a walk through cinema

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 like this I get a pair of pliers and some code anger and I gather them together in some kind of ropey bath so I just created the widest tightrope in the world what did I need what I needed the wider shoes in the world so I found some

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 tightrope walker because it's got a typical wavy flight in the air it's sort of dips from side to side slightly it very seldom flaps because they rely

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 tightrope walkers are some of the greatest risk takers in the world balance high above the ground one wrong

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 Hansol comes it's like walking a tightrope you never know where you might

Tightrope

Entertainment Context

Metaphorical Balance

Requires Skill

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