the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.
Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U. S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U. S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one'. . . Words I live by.
I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish. . . well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.
The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
There's something Vichy about the French.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B. C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.