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The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
Eric Cantona
Negative
Everyone
Everything
Say
About
Only
French
Things
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
Eric Cantona
Me
First
French
Foremost
Revolutionary
Being
It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.
Eric Ripert
Has-Been
French
Been
America
Resident
Stressful
The French are very individualistic.
Eric Rohmer
Individualistic
French
Very
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
Eric Rohmer
Difficulties
Out
Seek
Alliance
Except
French
Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.
Eric Schlosser
Food
Hey
Eat
Liked
French
French Fries
Fries
Taste
McDonald
Used
I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.
Eric Schlosser
Myself
Consider
Kind
Some
Like
French
French Fries
Hamburgers
Fries
Really
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
Ernst Toller
People
Mother
Imagination
Others
Would
Could
Most
French
Make
German
Them
Separated
Suffer
Sufferings
Imagine
In my junior year in college, I was getting kind of tired of French. So, I took an economics course, and I loved it. The rest of my two years in college I spent in economics.
Eugene Fama
Tired
Rest
College
Economics
Year
Took
Spent
Kind
French
Course
Years
Junior
Junior Year
Getting
Loved
Two
When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show an African or a Black Caribbean. When African-Americans come to France, the French people are like, 'Oh, wow. Oh my God.' But if it's an African, they're like, 'Whatever.' It's all because of the past, because of our history.
Euzhan Palcy
God
History
People
Black
Past
Whatever
Caribbean
Our
Consideration
France
Would
Wow
More
Come
Like
French
French People
Because
Than
Oh
Oh My God
African
Them
Show
I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'
Eva Green
Me
Thought
Ambition
Typecast
Okay
Rather
Like
Know
French
Well
Accent
Because
Coming
Up
Than
American
Want
Succeed
Hollywood
Working
English
International
Actress
I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
Eva Green
Love
You
Musicality
French
Sounds
Pitch
Flat
English
Play
I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose their heads. I can't really understand the whole thing - but it makes me laugh. It's such a cliche to think all French girls are well dressed, elegant, sophisticated and sexy. Some are utter slobs, I promise you that.
Eva Green
Me
You
Sex
Men
Girl
Build
Lose
Think
Extra
Laugh
Sex Appeal
Promise
Sexy
Some
Dressed
Magic
Having
Idea
Heads
Sophisticated
French
Well
Cliche
Makes
Understand
Up
Us
Much
Really
Appeal
Whole
Elegant
Utter
Thing
British
England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.
Eva Green
Good
France
Indian
French
Understands
Cuisine
Get
Just
Chinese
Japanese
England
I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.
Eva Herzigova
Love
French
Cuisines
Italian
Japanese
I learned French before I learned Spanish.
Eva Longoria
Before
French
Learned
Spanish
My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.
Famke Janssen
Beautiful
Good
Happy
Speak
Language
French
Still
In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
Fanny Howe
Me
Anxiety
Young
Breath
Translation
Indians
Russians
Voice
Poetry
Over
Since
French
Italians
Lingers
Very
Moves
Loved
Formality
Chinese
Translator
Measured
Original
Early
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
Felicity Huffman
Time
Hair
Philistine
Took
Spend
Spending
Kids
Only
Had
Feel
Knit
Studying
Knitting
Like
French
Because
Makeup
Italian
Brain
Up
After
Turned
Then
Used
Started
Two
Mush
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
First
Philosophical
Carried
Invented
Unchanged
Never
Had
French
Greeks
Any
Grammar
View
Phases
I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.
Florence King
Tools
Weapons
Pretty
Civilized
Highly
French
Well
Contempt
Trade
Been
Mockery
Irony
Done
Far
Professional
Designed
Tongue-In-Cheek
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
Florence King
Good
Achieve
Language
Good Taste
Other
Rarefied
Entirely
Tailored
French
Wrote
French Language
Meter
Verse
Pinnacle
Fits
Very
Taste
Uniquely
Plays
My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.
Flume
Crazy
People
Strong
Dance
Say
Flying
Hop
Kind
Super
Some
Inspirations
Main
Come
Like
French
Hip
Hip-Hop
Still
Lotus
Moby
Bunch
Get
Trance
Artists
Movement
Influence
Experimental
Chilled
Prodigy
Then
Electronica
Round
Early
I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
Francois Hollande
Faith
Respect
People
Values
Practice
Frame
Our
Rules
Secularism
Individual
Allow
French
French People
His
Common
Want
Each
Each Individual
Her
I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.
Francois Hollande
Me
Too Late
Wait
Try
Will
Made
Mistakes
Beginning
Too
Late
Say
Give
Proper
Adopt
Give Me
Term
Until
French
End
Behaviour
Right
Start
Chance
I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.
Francois Hollande
Change
People
French
French People
Going
Want
Who
Gather
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