Anthony Bourdain Quotes

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

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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In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

Joe Meno

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'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

Jim Beaver

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I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Jessie J

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Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

Robert J. Shiller

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I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Stephen Covey

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Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

Martin O'Malley

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Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and as a kid, I used to go on holidays to Scarborough.

Debra Stephenson

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Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.

Clara Shih

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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

Brenda Song

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All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

Brendan Fraser

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