Anthony Bourdain Quotes

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018

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PeopleProudThinkYouHouseGo

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Jeffery Deaver

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For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Jeff Bridges

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When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Steven Wright

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I used to have a road-rage issue.

Mike White

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One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.

Molly Antopol

LifeEyesMyselfPeopleWorldFind

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.

Miriam Toews

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I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Chester Gould

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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

China Mieville

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I think running Apple is a great job, but it suits Steve Jobs so well. I wouldn't want to be the person that ran Apple after Steve, but he has a great job.

Bobby Kotick

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I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad's company. I only did two of his films.

Arjun Kapoor

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What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.

William Klein

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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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