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Daily Inspiration Quote by Roger Moore

"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters"

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Roger Moore drops “favourite place in France” with the offhand confidence of a man whose passport lives on a silver tray. The line isn’t trying to sound profound; it’s doing something slicker: normalizing luxury by treating it as a casual travel tip. “Called Charlot Premier in Nice” lands like a password. It’s specific enough to feel insider-y, but breezy enough to imply he’s not bragging, just sharing. That’s the performance: privilege delivered as chatter.

The subtext is pure Moore. Even when he’s not playing Bond, he’s adjacent to Bond-world values: taste, ease, continental polish, the sense that life is a sequence of well-appointed stops. “Excellent oysters” is doing a lot of cultural work. Oysters signal refinement and indulgence, but also a certain nonchalance about expense, time, and proximity to the sea. He doesn’t describe the restaurant’s decor or service; he goes straight to the edible status marker. Taste becomes identity.

Context matters: this is the kind of sentence that shows up in interviews, memoirs, or talk-show banter, where celebrities soften their distance from the audience by offering “real” recommendations. It’s intimacy-by-address: you, too, could go to Charlot Premier, in theory. In practice, it’s a postcard from a life where “Nice” isn’t an adjective, it’s a weekend plan. The intent isn’t to instruct; it’s to charm, letting cosmopolitan glamour slip in under the radar of small talk.

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Roger Moore (born October 14, 1927) is a Actor from England.

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