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Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Available Culture Drinks Eat Environment Find First First Things Food Great Kind Nobody Out Really Singapore Things Where You

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Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Accessible Adventure China Experience First Food Foremost Got Great Great Place Hong Kong Kong Place Relatively Town Way Where Wonderful You

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Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Asia Became Boring Certainly Changed Crave Dishes First First Time Flavors Foods Going Kind Lot Love Me Palate Southeast Southeast Asia Spectrum Tasting Time To Love Used Whole

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The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Age Because Books Children First Illustrations Important Incredibly Life Most Paintings Picture See Share Stays Us

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The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Director Down Film First First Thing Like Paper Put Storyboard The First Thing Thing

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The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Background Battles Big Bubbles Closely Covered Drawing First First Things Going Jokes Little Looked Odd Paper Remember Scenes Sheets Speech Terrible Things Though Were You I Remember

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Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Always Back Best Book Books Choose Come Could Felt First First Time Force Gorilla Me Picture Time Understood

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I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: About Age Attack Been Brother Come Coming Coming Of Age Died Father First Front Had Half He Heart Home Horribly Hour Just Me Perfect Promoted Rugby Team Us Watch Wonderful

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From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Art Discovered Finding First Knew Like Loved Obsessed Rembrandt Salvador Something Sport Then

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One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: About After Anything Back Book Could Dad Day Fathers First Five Found God He Me Old One Day Positive Suitcase Superhero Thought Who Wrote

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