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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'
In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.
When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids.
Yohan Cabaye. He's a French player, and he dresses really well every day. There's no effort. That's how I like to dress.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
Like the French, Koreans aim for a subtle and effortless look - while actually paying a lot of attention to the details.
You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread.
Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.
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.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.
Before I was working out, if somebody told me that I would actually choose fruit over french fries, I would never believe them.
I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.
For me, I have always thought a squad comes before everything. I always make decisions for the good of the French national team.
I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.
It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
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.