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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Orville Wright
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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
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Oscar Wilde
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It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
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Dianne Wiest
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I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.
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Mae West
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Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.
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Tony Visconti
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Good talkers are only found in Paris.
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Francois Villon
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Author:
Virgil Thomson
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Gertrude Stein
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I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
Author:
Danielle Steel
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Barry Sonnenfeld
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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Patti Smith
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When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
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Gordon Sinclair
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Author:
Otto Schily
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Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.
Author:
Ali Saleh
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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Babe Ruth
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Prague is the Paris of the '90s.
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Marion Ross
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My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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Oscar Renta
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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
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Cole Porter
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In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
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Roman Polanski
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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Abbe Pierre
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Rachel Perry
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In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
Author:
Itzhak Perlman
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We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
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Richard Perle
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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
Author:
Gordon Parks
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I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'
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Trey Parker
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I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'
Author:
Robert Niro
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
Author:
Helmut Newton
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
Author:
Isaac Mizrahi
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
Author:
C. Mills
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Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
Author:
Prince Metternich
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
Author:
Karen McDougal
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
Author:
Harry Mathews
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
Author:
Harry Mathews
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
Author:
Olivier Martinez
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I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
Author:
Andie MacDowell
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I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.
Author:
Ernst Lubitsch
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The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
Author:
James Lovell
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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
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Gyorgy Ligeti
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If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Author:
Gyorgy Ligeti
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Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
Author:
David Letterman
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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.
Author:
David Letterman
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.
Author:
Robin Leach
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You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
Author:
Taylor Lautner
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Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
Author:
Christian Lacroix
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I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.
Author:
Diane Kruger
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Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.
Author:
Boris Kodjoe
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I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
Author:
John Kennedy
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The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
Author:
Kelly Jones
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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
Author:
James Johnson
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
Author:
James Johnson
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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
Author:
James Johnson
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I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
Author:
C. James
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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Author:
Marc Jacobs
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I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
Author:
Marc Jacobs
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
Author:
Karen Hughes
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Author:
Kate Hudson
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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
Author:
Paris Hilton
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
Author:
Paris Hilton
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Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.
Author:
John Hickenlooper
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Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.
Author:
Eva Herzigova
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Paris is always a good idea.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'
Author:
John Hench
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At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.
Author:
Anna Held
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It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.
Author:
Ronald Harwood
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Author:
Jim Harrison
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
Author:
E. Harburg
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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
Author:
Ernst Haas
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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
Author:
Gordon Getty
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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Author:
Ernest Gellner
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I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
Author:
Francois Gautier
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So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
Author:
Milos Forman
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I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
Author:
Bryan Ferry
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Author:
Friedrich Engels
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We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
Author:
John Dulles
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Author:
Vernon Duke
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I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
Author:
Whitfield Diffie
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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Author:
Jacques Derrida
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I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
Author:
Julie Delpy
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It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Author:
Robert Delaunay
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The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
Author:
Gerard Debreu
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The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
Author:
Humphry Davy
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I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
Author:
John Danforth
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But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
Author:
Hugh Dancy
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I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.
Author:
Tony Curtis
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The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all.
Author:
Jon Crosby
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
Author:
Jackie Collins
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
Author:
Camille Claudel
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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.
Author:
Ron Chernow
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Author:
Paul Cezanne
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
Author:
Willa Cather
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
Author:
Elliott Carter
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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
Author:
Elliott Carter
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I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
Author:
Leslie Caron
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I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
Author:
Leslie Caron
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The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
Author:
Kitty Carlisle
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
Author:
Ed Bradley
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
Author:
Ed Bradley
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I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Author:
Raymond Berry
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The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
Author:
Geoffrey Beene
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A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.
Author:
Geoffrey Beene
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The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
Author:
Tyra Banks
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I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
Author:
Tyra Banks
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
Author:
David Baker
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
Author:
Paul Auster
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Author:
Joan Arc
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Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
Author:
Thomas Appleton
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When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
Author:
Keren Ann
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If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
Author:
Keren Ann
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Author:
Fred Allen
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When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.
Author:
Lloyd Alexander
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
Author:
Lloyd Alexander
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So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.
Author:
Jenny Agutter
