“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.” PeopleDreamFictionHugeNormalScience FictionSticksFranceRealisticEntertainingThrillersNormal LifeAmerican Movie Author:Berenice Bejo
“Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.” MatterHardHonestExerciseNormalPaperNewsThirdsEnglandPressesNewspapersFrancePoundsRepublicCashCensorshipCheesePapersAdvertisementsIndirectAdvertisers Book:Orwell's England Source: Orwell's England
“I think British people for example can handle better their own poorness. The image of their poorness. But in France, people don't handle it very well. Either you are normal or ... if you are poor you better not show it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsShowsPoorExampleNormalBritishHandleFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.” WantShowsSocialSituationTeachSubjectsLessonsNormalFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.” KnowsShouldYearsReasonParentDecisionNormalAngryVersionsFranceFarmers Author:Eddie Vedder
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances” GirlRealizingVirtueMagicNormalFranceAuntDarlingPractical Magic Author:Alice Hoffman