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"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."
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"I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris."

"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."

"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."

"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."

"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."

"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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"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."

"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

"All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms."

"Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography."

"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story."
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