When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
Andreja Pejic
ParisSometimesSittingRoomModel
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
Graydon Carter
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If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
Max von Essen
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Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.
Caitriona Balfe
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Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.
Eva Herzigova
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I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.
Maurice Allais
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
Baz Luhrmann
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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.
Elliott Carter
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You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.
Jeanne Damas
YouBackParisLeaveComeDiscover
I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!
Barbara Fialho
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Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change.
David E. Sanger
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What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.
Stanley Donen
ThinkFeelParisKnowWayReal
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
Charles Lindbergh
SimpleCircleParisFar AwayLights
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.
Siri Hustvedt
LifeMomentWritingThinkParis
I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'
Billy Porter
QueenCreateParisSaidWantTalk
I had my own Land of Lost Sidekicks, where I pretended I lived in Paris with my best friend, a little cowboy based on a Marky Maypo doll.
Roger Ross Williams
FriendBestBest FriendParisLost
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
Azzedine Alaia
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Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.
Rosecrans Baldwin
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Alan Furst
HeartYouParisWhereLikeBeating
I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.
Montel Williams
ParisIslandWillNeverMilitary
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
Willa Cather
PlaceParisHardLeaveEvenRains
One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.
Juergen Teller
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The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.
Tedros Adhanom
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