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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


#chose #creation #does #french #him

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.


Jean-Jacques Annaud


#film #financing #fire #fox #french

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.


Paul Auster


#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.


Hervey Allen


#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.


Jose Bergamin


#choose #french #french literature #la #literature

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.


Kenneth Baker


#between #big #distinction #english #french

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.


Henry Walter Bates


#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.


Ambrose Bierce


#mayonnaise #place #religion #sauces #serve

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.


Jo Durie


#been #big #big break #break #break up

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.


Roy Blunt


#advertised #army #being #day #description






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