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If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren`t any French people there
Kenneth Stilling
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I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
General George S. Patton
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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle
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I did (training in) tennis, ballet, swing dancing, piano, art class and etiquette. I also did French dialect, but then it was mixing me up with my Southern dialect, so we stuck to Southern!
Rachel McAdams
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I feel very happy that Bush is our president. One way that you can tell we have a good president, is by how much the French dislike him. The more the French hate him, the better he must be. And they hate this one.
Vincent Gallo
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I feel very happy that Bush is our president. One way that you can tell we have a good president, is by how much the French dislike him. The more the French hate him, the better he must be. And they hate this one.
Vincent Gallo
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Hollywood seems to be now moving away from the idea of casting Brits as villains and is casting the French instead. It`s something to do with the war, I suspect.
Charles Dance
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You can`t go to London and not start drinking Guinness. And I have been known to eat fried fish and French fries. When in Rome - right?
Madonna Ciccone
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I`m a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don`t use animal products, so you don`t wear leather, you don`t wear wool, and you don`t eat animal products. But you can eat french fries and stuff like that all day ...
Emily Deschanel
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You made the right choice, kiddo! - Peck`s tongue-in-cheek response when he discovered that his second wife, the French journalist Veronique Passani, had passed up an opportunity to interview Albert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre in orde...
Gregory Peck
Keywords: albert :: an :: at :: by :: cheek :: choice :: discovered :: french :: had :: he :: his :: hosted :: in :: interview :: jean :: journalist :: kiddo :: lunch :: made :: opportunity :: order :: passani :: passed :: paul :: peck :: response :: right :: sartre :: schweitzer :: second :: that :: the :: to :: tongue :: up :: veronique :: when :: wife :: youSource: imdb.com
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Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin, and could be from North Africa or parts of Asia, or Italy and Spain. But, as far as I know, I`m 100-percent French.
Audrey Tautou
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The funny thing is I`m actually a Polish Jew who happens to be born in France. My mom is Polish and my dad is Bulgarian. I don`t have an ounce of French blood. But I work it.
Michael Vartan
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Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn`t like the word "horror". They, like I, went for the French description: "the theatre of the fantastique".
Christopher Lee
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People in the street still call me Popeye, and The French Connection (1971) was 15 years ago. I wish I could have a new hit and another nickname.
Gene Hackman
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I love French films, and European films. They`re not any bigger, but there`s just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I`d always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they`r...
Jim Broadbent
Keywords: always :: and :: any :: better :: bigger :: but :: confidence :: definition :: drama :: european :: films :: french :: get :: given :: go :: just :: love :: not :: obviously :: of :: ones :: option :: probably :: re :: see :: soph :: sort :: strength :: the :: them :: there :: they :: to :: weSource: imdb.com
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I love French films, and European films. They`re not any bigger, but there`s just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I`d always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they`r...
Jim Broadbent
Keywords: always :: and :: any :: better :: bigger :: but :: confidence :: definition :: drama :: european :: films :: french :: get :: given :: go :: just :: love :: not :: obviously :: of :: ones :: option :: probably :: re :: see :: soph :: sort :: strength :: the :: them :: there :: they :: to :: weSource: imdb.com
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Prostitutes in Lyons, France, sent a fax to the government to complain that they are losing business to Eastern European women who are protected by the Albanian mafia. Okay, first of all, how rough-looking are these French prostitutes that all their custo...
Tina Fey
Keywords: albanian :: all :: are :: business :: by :: complain :: customers :: eastern :: european :: fax :: first :: france :: french :: government :: how :: in :: looking :: losing :: lyons :: mafia :: of :: okay :: prostitutes :: protected :: rough :: sent :: that :: the :: their :: these :: they :: to :: who :: womenSource: imdb.com
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Sammy [Sammy Davis Jr.] was really good friends with Peter Brown. Peter got married to a French girl, Yvette. He had this little ceremony in this church in Beverly Hills. Sammy . . . and Dean Martin were there. Dean Martin fell sound asleep just before Pe...
William Smith
Keywords: and :: asleep :: before :: beverly :: brown :: ceremony :: church :: davis :: dean :: do :: fell :: french :: friends :: girl :: good :: got :: had :: he :: hills :: in :: jr :: just :: little :: married :: martin :: peter :: really :: said :: sammy :: sound :: there :: this :: to :: was :: were :: with :: yvetteSource: imdb.com
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On Brigitte Bardot: "She`s the only woman I`ve ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she`s everything a woman should be. She`s blonde and beautiful, she`s got the most incredible legs--etcetera, etcetera. And she`s French as well...
Rod Stewart
Keywords: about :: and :: as :: bardot :: be :: beautiful :: blonde :: brigitte :: come :: etcetera :: ever :: everything :: fantasy :: first :: french :: got :: had :: incredible :: legs :: looks :: me :: most :: on :: only :: sexual :: she :: should :: the :: ve :: well :: with :: womanSource: imdb.com
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The French Connection (1971) was really made in the editing room. One of the easiest sequences to do was the chase scene. It was relatively easy to do because everything was worked out minutely, carefully planned and checked in advance. Of course, there w...
William Friedkin
Keywords: 1971 :: advance :: and :: because :: carefully :: chase :: checked :: connection :: course :: do :: easiest :: easy :: editing :: everything :: french :: in :: it :: made :: minutely :: of :: one :: out :: planned :: really :: relatively :: room :: scene :: sequences :: som :: the :: there :: to :: was :: were :: workedSource: imdb.com
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And that`s how the world, I think, imagines French women you know like very womanly and seducing men and that`s how they like to imagine them.
Sophie Marceau
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[The Pillow Book] The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat ...
Peter Greenaway
Keywords: and :: book :: calligraphic :: cantonese :: curved :: dialogue :: egyptian :: english :: film :: five :: flat :: flesh :: french :: has :: hebrew :: in :: it :: japanese :: languages :: latin :: mandarin :: necrotic :: on :: paper :: pillow :: spoken :: surfaces :: text :: the :: twenty :: vietnamese :: wood :: writtenSource: imdb.com
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[after directing The French Connection (1971)] Each picture I`ve done so far has been for different reasons. The Birthday Party (1968), for instance, was purely a labor of love. I wanted to do [Harold Pinter]. Others were to advance my career, to get bett...
William Friedkin
Keywords: 1968 :: 1971 :: advance :: after :: assignments :: been :: better :: birthday :: career :: connection :: different :: directing :: do :: done :: each :: far :: for :: french :: get :: harold :: has :: instance :: labor :: love :: my :: of :: others :: party :: picture :: pinter :: purely :: reasons :: so :: the :: to :: ve :: wanted :: was :: wereSource: imdb.com
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I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
Robert De Niro
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My family emigrated during the revolution. 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 Ire...
Alexis Denisof
Keywords: 20s :: although :: and :: as :: came :: during :: early :: emigrated :: family :: french :: from :: ge :: grandfather :: grandmother :: her :: immigrants :: in :: ireland :: met :: moscow :: mother :: my :: new :: odessa :: of :: outside :: over :: revolution :: some :: the :: they :: was :: were :: yorkSource: imdb.com
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In France, they`re having trouble translating a lot of Internet terms into French. In France the law is you have to use French words. For example, there are no French words for surfing the Web, there aren`t any French words for chat session, and there are...
Jay Leno
Keywords: an :: and :: any :: are :: aren :: chat :: example :: for :: france :: french :: have :: having :: in :: internet :: into :: is :: law :: lot :: no :: of :: re :: session :: surfing :: terms :: the :: there :: they :: to :: translating :: trouble :: use :: web :: words :: youSource: imdb.com
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In France, they`re having trouble translating a lot of Internet terms into French. In France the law is you have to use French words. For example, there are no French words for surfing the Web, there aren`t any French words for chat session, and there are...
Jay Leno
Keywords: an :: and :: any :: are :: aren :: chat :: example :: for :: france :: french :: have :: having :: in :: internet :: into :: is :: law :: lot :: no :: of :: re :: session :: surfing :: terms :: the :: there :: they :: to :: translating :: trouble :: use :: web :: words :: youSource: imdb.com
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In France, they`re having trouble translating a lot of Internet terms into French. In France the law is you have to use French words. For example, there are no French words for surfing the Web, there aren`t any French words for chat session, and there are...
Jay Leno
Keywords: an :: and :: any :: are :: aren :: chat :: example :: for :: france :: french :: have :: having :: in :: internet :: into :: is :: law :: lot :: no :: of :: re :: session :: surfing :: terms :: the :: there :: they :: to :: translating :: trouble :: use :: web :: words :: youSource: imdb.com
