Rare Breed by Sunny Bonnell

Author:Sunny Bonnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Chase Down Your Passion like It’s the Last Bus of the Night

Terri Guillemets is a self-proclaimed “word harvester,” vintage bookworm, library enthusiast, and poetic insomniac who is “obsessed with collecting quotations, devoted to spreading quotatious joy.” She started collecting quotations when she was thirteen, and her website, The Quote Garden, is one of the most comprehensive collections of quotations in the world. “Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night” is one of her lines, and it’s perfect advice for hot-blooded people.

Most people often don’t know what to do with the steam coming out of their ears. Hot-blooded Rare Breeds do. They figure out what is worth chasing down, and then they put every last drop of who they are into catching it. That’s how they spin their interests into passions and their passions into careers.

Want to leave giant bite marks on the world? Figure out what you can’t not do, and then do it.

To Parts Unknown

The late, great Anthony Bourdain personified life at such a fever pitch. His suicide left us heartbroken, mourning the loss of a one-of-a-kind voice.

Our office in Lower Manhattan is next door to the now-closed Brasserie Les Halles, the restaurant where Bourdain got his start. In the days following his death, his fans paid tribute to him with a makeshift memorial on the roll-down grates of the entrance, covering the area with flowers, cigarettes, chopsticks, bottles of wine, cans of beer, love letters, and other personal remembrances in Bourdain’s honor. One handwritten note read, “You showed me that a punk kid from Bergen County, NJ can follow his dreams and see the world.”

Bourdain inspired millions with the intense, piquant, unapologetic way that he lived. His beloved show Parts Unknown was a travelogue on the surface, but it was really about unabashed sensual experiences. He cheerfully devoured the most revolting local dishes, including balut (a duck embryo boiled and eaten while still in the shell) and warthog ass (after which, he took numerous antibiotics), all to get to the authentic heart of a place and its people.

Bourdain was addicted to experience, and not the coiffed, carefully packaged experiences found on tourism sites. No, his raison d’être was to drink deep of the world—to savor a chunk of fresh-killed eland from the plains of South Africa and let the blood run down his chin. Profane, irreverent, intolerant of bullshit, and unashamedly enamored with the pleasures of the flesh, his greatest love was people—people of all ethnicities, shapes, languages, and backgrounds—as long as they had a story to tell and were willing to share a piece of the culture they called home.

Everybody loved Bourdain because he was special. He wasn’t just a journalist. He wasn’t a dilettante dipping his toe into Paris’s Marais district or the backwoods of Appalachia so he could tell all his friends on the Upper East Side about eating a cobra heart. He was an explorer, storyteller, and anthropologist who cared about discovery while not giving a fuck about celebrity. Recklessness, risk, and hot-blooded passion were the driving forces behind everything he did.

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