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Love Quote by Julie Delpy

"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me"

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Delpy is selling cosmopolitanism without the usual braggy passport-stamp theater. The first line, "I'm an adaptable nomad", sounds like a profile-friendly tagline, but the rhythm that follows complicates it: city after city, affection after affection, a life narrated through capitals. Paris, Los Angeles, New York, London. These aren’t just coordinates; they’re cultural systems with different currencies of identity, taste, and belonging. By stacking them, she signals fluency in multiple worlds while refusing to be pinned to any single one.

The quiet pivot is "since 1990". That timestamp matters. It frames her transatlantic life as pre-social-media globalization: not a curated remote-worker fantasy but decades of actual relocation, accent drift, career recalibration, and the soft losses that come with starting over. It also hints at Delpy’s specific cultural position as a French actress who built a major slice of her mythos in American indie cinema: close enough to be legible, foreign enough to remain interesting.

"My roots are inside of me" is the rejection of the loyalty test that follows mobile artists, especially women: Where are you really from? Who do you belong to? She answers with an internalized homeland, an identity not granted by nation or scene but carried like muscle memory. The subtext is autonomy: she can love places without being owned by them, and she can keep moving without forfeiting authenticity. It’s a nomad’s credo aimed at an era still suspicious of people who don’t perform a single, stable origin story.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Delpy, Julie. (2026, January 15). I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-an-adaptable-nomad-i-love-paris-ive-been-158788/

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Delpy, Julie. "I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-an-adaptable-nomad-i-love-paris-ive-been-158788/.

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"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-an-adaptable-nomad-i-love-paris-ive-been-158788/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a Actress from France.

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