"Thinking that your story is so interesting..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain
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.
More by Anthony Bourdain
“One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.”
“You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.”
“And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.”
More on Storytelling
“Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.”
“Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
More on Self Perception
“My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo”
“It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.”
“Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.”