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"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
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"The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all."
"I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris."
"Le Marais?''It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay."
"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."
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"If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris."
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