French Quotes

I've never felt like a French actress. Isabelle Adjani
Never Like French Felt Actress
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition. Issey Miyake
Fashion People Clothes Top For The People French Make Became Tradition Fashion Designer Designer
There's something Vichy about the French. Ivor Novello
About Something French
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area. J. G. Ballard
November Club Avenue Gatherings Waterfront Meetings Embassy City Born Magical General Various Area Hospital Shanghai Glamorous French Were Western Patriotic Place Suburbs Race Amherst Lived British
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture. J. M. G. Le Clezio
Culture Feeling Living France Bubble Had French Still Up Grew Belonging
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French. J. M. G. Le Clezio
School First Write Contact French Up Child Grew Literature Public Mean Speaking Reason Public School Why
I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing. Ja Rule
Me Breakfast Nice Enjoy Type Kinda Guy Wrong French Making Get Eggs Scrambled Burner Toast Cook Thing Pancakes
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one. Jain
Music Beatles Soul Culture Listening Big Marley Had Stuff French Soul Music Janis Joplin Little Bob Bob Marley Much
I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity. Jain
Live France Born French Identity Am Cultural Here
In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country. James Cronin
Learning Culture Country Research Addition French Another Enjoyed Assimilating
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton
Today Art Freedom Age First Sense Other Our Characteristics Vanity Structure Poets Developing Between French Idiom Verbal Line Hand Efforts Any Form Rhythm Forms Choice Fundamental
My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French. James Horner
Music People Big Composers Some Russian Mahler Never Over French Mostly Wagner Were Tastes Fan Place English Early Medieval
I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor. James Nesbitt
Degree French Wanted Realised Packed Really Actor Started University
It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud. James Rosenquist
Me You People Doctor Amazing Other Meet Daniel Introduced Architect Through Driver He Knew Hot French How Very Louvre Who Jean
'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.' James Wan
Death Revenge Wish Style Action Films Drama More Thriller Scenes Throwback Like Contemporary French Very Storyline Sentence Much Shot Really Moments Connection
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf. Jami Attenberg
Family Mind Hair First Building Local Once Saw Onion Like Looked French First Thing Go Been His Years Trump Fried Chicago Up Office Donald Donald Trump Behind The First Thing Used Chain Growing Growing Up Thing Loaf
I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun. Jane Birkin
Think Extreme Charm French Makes Them Fun Actually
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. Jean-Francois Cope
Religion Racism People Our Sections Cities Pretext Some Color Share Developing Individuals French French People Same Nationality Where Whom Origins Designate
My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Personality Fire Style Way Financing Remaining Scheme Since French Quest Reflecting American Production Used Film Started Fox Funds
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Book Language French Because Becomes Hit Author Same Goes Movies International
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Aim Entire Paris French Make Shoot American Movies Planet
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Matter Whatever Creation Paris Picasso He Simply Ideal French Him Because Does His Sell Surrounding Influences Place Spanish Painted Painter Chose
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope. Jean-Jacques Annaud
National Longer French Understand Got Scope Afford Expensive Regional Even Film
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact. Jean-Jacques Annaud
World Matter Laughing Distribution Fact French Movies
When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France. Jean-Michel Jarre
Time Me Strange Troublemakers Mother Considered France Way Reminded French She Were Heard Edward Traitors Snowden Story Strange Way Even Early Resistance
At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French! Jean-Michel Jarre
Time Punk Considered Out Totally Moreover Days Concept French Instrumental Disco Far Early Early Days
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