Paris Quotes - Page 21

• All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

  Willa Cather

  Brave, Southern, Handsome

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• When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the UK and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Different, Week

  "Maje Fetes Alexa Chung in a French Meets British Fashion Collab". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Feels, Wells, Knows

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• I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

  Pierre Dukan

  Luxury, Wife, House

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• When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Planets, Aim

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• When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Doe, Matter, Influence

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• I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Special, Different, London

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, England, Movement

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.

  Michael Jackson

  Daughter, Eye, Miracle

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• Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

  Oscar Wilde

  Air, Games, Cafes

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• London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Fate, Rome

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.12

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• My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Rejection, Mouths

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

  Claude Monet

  Strong, Believe, Taken

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Iran, Giving, News

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• Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris Hilton is definitely one of those people.

  Tara Reid

  Dance, Fun, People

  "Tara Reid visits Paris and Paris". www.today.com. August 5, 2005.

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• With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

  Christian Lacroix

  Christian, House, Development

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• One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

  Ron Chernow

  New York, Political, Special

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• But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

  Rick Moody

  Party, Important, Twenties

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• Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Cutting, Army, Crowns

  Napoleon Bonaparte, D. A. Bingham (2010). “A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon: With Explanatory Notes”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Firsts, First Time

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• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Iraq, France

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• At last I have come into a dreamland.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lasts, Dreamland

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.158

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• If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Humble, Bears, Flight

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.459, Delphi Classics

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• Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Feels, My Own, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  New York, Los Angeles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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