Paris Quotes - Page 26

• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

  Nina Berberova

  Reflection, Essence, Cities

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• [On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before knowing it: it devoured us, we devoured it, and the problem is not did we or didn't we want it. We consumed each other. It courses in our blood.

  Nina Berberova

  Hate, Men, Knowing

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• They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

  Giacomo Balla

  Progress, Gone, Want

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• I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Jobs, Vanity, People

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

  Helen Bevington

  Past, Self, Return

  Helen Bevington (1988). “The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies”, p.91, Duke University Press

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• It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Scary, Honor

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• Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.

  Suzy Amis

  Fashion, Dresses, Trends

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• Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

  Jay Leno

  Jail, People, Upset

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• Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

  Jemima West

  School, Parent, Grew

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• Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.

  Bram van Velde

  Art, Essence, Way

  "A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger". Book by Bram van Velde, Deurne, p. 44, Letter to H. E. Kramer, October 25, 1926, 1994.

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• In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

  Janet Scudder

  Long, May, Matter

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• Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.

  Cecily Strong

  Beautiful, Thinking, President

  "Transcript for Cecily Strong Remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner". abcnews.go.com. April 26, 2015.

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• In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Three, Records

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• I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, New York, Artist

  "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Political, Shooting

  "You, Me, and Bernardo Bertolucci". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee.

  Colson Whitehead

  Coffee, Writing, People

  "The Column of Lasting Insignificance" by John Wilcock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2008.

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• The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Fans, Pages

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• Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

  Erik Larson

  Reading, Sublime, Missions

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• The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Government

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• I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

  Simon Hoggart

  Turkeys, News, Stories

  "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Dream, Cities, Saint

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Rome, America

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• Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

  William Kennedy

  Issues, Greek, Literature

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• I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

  Eve Ensler

  New York, Saint, Nomad

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