“I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been ado...” — Jane Birkin Quote

“I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.”

“Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.”

“My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.”

“I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid.”

“I have boxes of letters about the generous things people have done for other people. Numerous people have adopted children. I have letters that would bring tears to your eyes.”

“We have adopted zero-tolerance policy against terrorism. We have not fed biryani to terrorists.”