I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
Donald Trump presented for the French an infinitely less dangerous program than that of Hillary Clinton.
In view of the mess left behind by the French and ourselves, we cannot simply leave Libya alone.
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.
We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.
For the hair, a few French hairpins and a tortoiseshell clip will dress up any bun!
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'
There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
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.
I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
I still rate my first victory in the French Open at Roland Garros as my best win ever.
My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.
If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.
Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant!
If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.
For me, ever since the South Africa World Cup, the French team is part of the past.
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.
Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.
You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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