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My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.
Agnes Varda
War
Mother
Father
He
French
Blood
Greek
Turned
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.
Aimee Bender
Love
Me
Man
Care
Relatives
Salt
Burger
Think
Corner
Kind
Restaurants
More
Foods
Joint
Like
Terms
French
French Fries
Fries
Childhood
Elderly
Special
Who
Usual
Seasoning
Associate
Associations
If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?
Ajay Devgan
Me
Somebody
Kiss
Before
Own
Starts
Else
Would
Someone
My Own
Remake
Had
Dropped
Announced
French
Am
Subject
After
Film
Started
The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.
Alain Ducasse
Relentless
Pursuit
French
Very
Being
Different
Being Different
The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
Alain Ducasse
Mediterranean
Fine
About
Week
Colours
Smells
French
Limitless
Yearn
Italian
Then
View
Sea
Inland
The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.
Alain Ducasse
Christmas
Job
First
Dessert
Log
Classic
Kitchen
First Job
Most
French
Make
Around
Boy
Holidays
Flavors
Chocolate
Cream
Coconut
Butter
Two
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
Alain Juppe
Collective
Ourselves
Bizarre
Must
Protect
French
Very
Being
Depiction
Decline
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
Alain Prost
French
Am
Maybe
Nowhere
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
Alaina Huffman
More
Tend
French
Than
Often
Curse
English
In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.
Alex Lifeson
Future
People
Church
Fire
September
Our
Sign
Bad
Rush
Born
Deli
Small
Songs
Like
French
Spoonful
French Fries
Hall
Around
Got
Fries
Ordered
Then
Paid
Planning
Basement
Nearby
Played
Started
I think Maje typifies that French vibe where it's simple items that are very practical, very wearable but also, like, incredibly chic and expensive-looking.
Alexa Chung
Simple
Think
Incredibly
Like
Also
French
Practical
Chic
Items
Very
Vibe
Where
I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.
Alexa Chung
Great
Learning
Live
Fluently
France
Would
Would-Be
French
Learn
Go
Stop
Want
Really
Ever
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
Alexander Chee
War
Peace
Russian
Both
French
Read
Were
Began
American
Available
Translations
English
In England, the fans are more spectators than supporters. There's a better atmosphere in French stadiums.
Alexandre Lacazette
Better
Fans
Atmosphere
More
Supporters
French
Than
Stadiums
England
Spectators
Throughout my childhood, and thanks to Arsenal's former striker Thierry Henry and other French players, I always dreamed of playing for this club, so that dream has been fulfilled.
Alexandre Lacazette
Thanks
Club
Other
Has-Been
Dream
Dreamed
Throughout
French
Always
Been
Arsenal
Childhood
Former
Fulfilled
Henry
Players
Playing
My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.
Alexis Denisof
Family
Mother
Met
Immigrants
Some
Outside
Generations
Over
New
Moscow
French
Although
Came
Were
Ireland
York
New York
Grandfather
Grandmother
Her
Early
Early 20s
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Friendship
Good
Relationship
Strong
Old
President
Relations
French
Real
Depending
Cooperation
When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
Alice Waters
Love
Food
Day
First
Everywhere
Markets
Restaurants
Small
Paris
Obsession
Fell
French
Well
Fresh
Fresh Food
Existed
Often
Family-Owned
Then
Twice
Twice A Day
Buying
In the late 1980s, a new revolt broke out, this time led by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front). Many of its leaders were the kind of young Algerians who joined the struggle against the French occupiers in the 1950s.
Alistair Horne
Time
Struggle
Young
Late
Broke
Out
Kind
Joined
Leaders
New
French
Islamic
Were
Led
Revolt
Salvation
Front
Against
Who
Many
Fundamentalist
For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.
Alton Brown
Me
Military
Say
Kind
About
Something
Kitchen
Like
French
Knows
Talking
Am
Male
Any
Going
Anybody
Worked
Who
Ever
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.
Amanda Foreman
Saying
History
Queen
Cake
Wife
Beginning
Every
Out
Eat
Most
French
Cliche
Foreign
Line
Been
According
Louis
Accused
Famous
Them
Turns
Theresa
Marie
Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Amanda Foreman
Character
Queen
Daughter
Ambition
Unlike
Francis
Ways
Born
Atmosphere
Mary
Emperor
Calculation
Devoid
French
She
Court
Austria
Intelligent
Survive
Artistic
To Survive
Required
Youngest
Many
Theresa
Her
Maria
Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.
Amanda Tapping
Time
Women
Comedy
Passion
Before
Other
Way
Television
Out
Kind
Smack
Along
Footwear
French
How
Doing
Lines
Very
Sensible
Pony
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Much
Really
Now
Thing
Started
It's an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions - particularly when they are too often presented with an a la carte lunch room choice of french fries or yogurt.
Amy Klobuchar
Good
Food
Battle
Lunch
Too
Our
Kids
Carte
Particularly
French
French Fries
Make
Learn
La
Fries
Uphill
Yogurt
Often
Decisions
Room
Choice
Help
Good Food
Presented
It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
Ana Ivanovic
Game
Experience
Young
Open
Tennis
French
French Open
Because
Just
Different
Loved
Aged
Much
Played
Playing
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
Anatoly Chubais
Will
Own
Think
Way
States
Find
Follow
Russia
French
Sure
United
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