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Tag Name "Acrobat" (7)

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Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
E. B. White
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In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.
Judith Perelman Rossner
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In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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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
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For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.
Jeff Raz
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The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
Maurice Barres
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Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
Vladimir Nabokov