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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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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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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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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I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.
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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.
