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Ansel Adams Photographer
Creative

“Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.”

Ansel Adams Photographer
Creative

“I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Hopeful

“I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I always recognized that at no point until I was 50 was I old enough or up to the job. I thought, you know what, I not only really want a child, but at this point, finally in my life, I think I'm up to the job and I'm the type of person who could do the job well and I'm financially prepared to look after a child.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Funny

“Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.”

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Wise

“I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Funny

“I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Angry

“I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.”

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Vulnerable

“I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.”

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Thoughtful

“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Creative

“Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.”

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Creative

“I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Thoughtful

“To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Sad

“I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy.”

Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Happy

“I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.”

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Sad

“It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.”

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