Amelie Nothomb Quotes

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Amelie Nothomb

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Made

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Long
  • She
  • City

• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Me
  • Desire

• You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • You
  • Paris

• If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • City
  • Paris
  • Fireworks

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Jews

• There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Different
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Paris
  • Holiday
  • Trees

• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

  

  McKayla Maroney
  • Help
  • Moving

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

  

  George C. Williams
  • Understanding

• When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Paris