Charles Tillman Quotes
This is my third year in the league and it's my first time in first place. It's feeling pretty good. I'm going to savor the moment.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
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There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.
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We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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Not everybody's gonna get your vision.
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This is my third year in the league and it's my first time in first place. It's feeling pretty good. I'm going to savor the moment.
