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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.


Francois Truffaut

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FELICITY KENDAL You're looking at me like you fell in love with me."
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TOBY JONES I think it's kind of like you fall in love with the person, like you fall in love with the script.
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Hungry bellies have no cars. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
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FRANCOIS HOLLANDE France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the worl...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe&...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Everything has to go well for him in a race now, so we'll have to see about the future. It's too soo...
FRANCOIS DOUMEN A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to br...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy...
FRANCOIS NARS One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
FRANCOIS JACOB I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Mic...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor...
FRANCOIS NARS I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you t...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and...
FRANCOIS NARS You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
FRANCOIS NARS You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free pa...
FRANCOIS QUESNAY This is an unquestionable retreat. It is a grand success for the young and an impressive victory for...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on obje...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exc...
FRANCOIS FTNELON Good talkers are only found in Paris.
FRANCOIS VILLON Blonde or brunette, this rhyme applies, happy is he who knows them not
FRANCOIS VILLON The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
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