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I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I tend to overcompensate for my long absences when I'm home by cooking and it's therapeutic to me - it's how I express love for my daughter. It felt good to do.
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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
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My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just threw meat at her and she's happy on a 100 percent protein diet, so we seldom ate together.
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I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
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Without new ideas success can become stale
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Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.
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Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
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The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.
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I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out I'm asleep for takeoff.
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.
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