Lev Grossman
Related ANDRE LEON TALLEY JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn... JOSHUA PRINCE-RAMUS CAMERON DIAZ I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to... F. GARY GRAY OLGA KURYLENKO SEAN CONNERY TERRY WOGAN I never thought I could win the French Open. LI NA DAVID SEDARIS TAHAR BEN JELLOUN KARL LAGERFELD I speak Italian, French, Creole and English. META GOLDING I read French much better than I speak. CARA BLACK I speak French fluently, so that really helped. NOAH HATHAWAY ALISON MOYET DENIS LEARY STEVEN WRIGHT MARK TWAIN We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren... JOANNE HARRIS EDMUND WHITE I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the number... FREDDY ADU DOUGLAS COUPLAND I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. FRANCOIS HOLLANDE MARK TWAIN DANICA MCKELLAR MEG CABOT STEVEN WRIGHT GARTH RISK HALLBERG I don't like French food. I like everything but French food. EMMANUELLE SEIGNER MARK TWAIN Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big ce... JEAN RENO NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM JODIE FOSTER DOUGLAS COUPLAND I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. ALAINA HUFFMAN I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. ALEXA DAVALOS CORY MONTEITH JERRY HALL I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love fo... NICOLAS SARKOZY LATOYA JACKSON I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so ... BERENICE MARLOHE When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun... MADELEINE PEYROUX JANINE DI GIOVANNI INA GARTEN AZZEDINE ALAIA en français? JOHN GREEN The French judge decided they could apply the law merely because the user in France can get on the I... GREG WRENN People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada... MARC-ANDRE GRONDIN pas davantage ... JAVIER MARíAS I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural. NANCY WAKE I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French... JULIETTE BINOCHE Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. JIM COLEMAN MANDY MOORE They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. AUDIE MURPHY MARINE LE PEN ROSECRANS BALDWIN JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT MARY J. BLIGE I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty! MEGAN HILTY I have been contacted by shareholders -- French and foreign ... who are worried that some decisions ... COLETTE NEUVILLE I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can’... CHILA WOYCHIK My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD VANESSA WILLIAMS On the second day I was understanding and speaking French and not having to speak English, just like... LAURA WILSON In many ways I think the French electorate will decide the timing because if the French vote 'no' th... FRANK DOBSON We love the French Quarter. I fell in love with the city and never went back. BETSY KUYT It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I... FELICITY HUFFMAN STEPHEN WRIGHT In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and Germ... PATRICK WHITE WILFRID LAURIER Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere. ALAIN PROST Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. THOMAS KELLER French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies,... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING CHARLES V CHARLES V To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German. JASON CHAMBERLAIN RICHARD SIMMONS CHARLES DE GAULLE BERNARD CORNWELL I phoned the Admiral back.TIM FITZHIGHAM MARINE LE PEN In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime ministe... BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI CARINE ROITFELD It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign o... NICOLAS SOBCZAK Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. GERRY MULLIGAN I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?" ROD SCHMIDT I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING JEAN DUJARDIN I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiqu... IAN HAMILTON FINLAY I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC. LAURA HARRIER could be a new tragedy for French farmers. JEAN GLAVANY The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all ... BERNARD PIVOT I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines. EVA HERZIGOVA I was shocked. I almost dropped the french fries. PHILLIP LEMARQUE I can make the best French toast. PETER O'TOOLE STEPHANIE PERKINS I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisi... DANIEL BOULUD I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these lan... CARICE VAN HOUTEN
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