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I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house. Mylene Dinh-Robic

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By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Education Teacher Training Will Increase System Weaknesses Able Recruitment French Wages Continuing Conditions Up Shore Working

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position. Nancy Kress

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The French complain of everything, and always. Napoleon Bonaparte

Complain Everything French Always

Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese. Nick Harkaway

Best Good Challenges World Cheese Despite Some Mention Outrage Leaders French Italy Austria Spain Swiss World Leaders Britain

My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my mother was very obsessed with the French New Wave. That was her generation. Nicolas Winding Refn

Generation Cinema Mother Healthy Wave Scandinavian Mentality Had Stepfather Obsessed New French Documentary Course Came Were Very Her Filmmakers

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch. Nikita Parris

School Never Spoken French Scratch Really Lessons Starting

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital. Nikki Sixx

Me Photography Sometimes Matter Digital Main French Camera Wet Preference Much Really Use Plate Film

I speak French fluently, so that really helped. Noah Hathaway

Speak Fluently French Really Helped

There's always something fishy about the French. Noel Coward

About Something French Always Fishy

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. Norman Wisdom

Saxophone Clarinet Horn Piano Drums French French Horn Trumpet Play Play Drums

I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels. Olga Kurylenko

Love Time Gorgeous Luxury Back Stay Paris Step Hotel Hotels Feels Like Also French Very Either Which Bristol

My son will be an American, but I remain French. Olivier Martinez

Son Will Remain French American

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. Orson Welles

Art Best Made Addiction Interview Despite Like French Art Form Form

The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part. Pamela Druckerman

What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have to taste it.' And it's that tasting little by little by little that gets kids more familiar with the food and more comfortable with it and more likely to eat it the next time. Pamela Druckerman

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen. Pamela Druckerman

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When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too. Pamela Druckerman

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Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening. Pamela Druckerman

Confidence Listening Parents Everyone Boost Kids Remark Over Most French Concise His Child American Where Might Teach Keep Amusing

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references. Pamela Druckerman

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