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Anthony Bourdain Quotes

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

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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Myself College Writing Think Doing

There really is only one difference between the two. Mr. Trump promises to support religious liberty and the dignity of the unborn. Mrs. Clinton promises she will not.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Support Promises Dignity Liberty She

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

John Lydon

Music Words Emotions More Where Far

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

Amnat Ruenroeng

Team Believe Olympic

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Siri Hustvedt

Women Men Serious Become More Far

At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

Sloane Crosley

Dinner End Year Calendar New Done

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Toni Morrison

People City Black Violence Place

Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.

Dinah Manoff

Good Mother New York Thought New

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

Dinaw Mengestu

History Myself Man School Young Way

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Christopher Walken

Broken People Listening Speak Up

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

Cornelia Funke

Time Wish More I Wish Visit Had

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk

Moment Perfection Effort Worth You

It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.

Brett Young

Writing Down Why Always Helpful Put