George Tillman, Jr. Quotes
I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.
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I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.
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When you arrive unexpectedly at someone’s house you go in through the front door, often after making sure you’ve got a couple of mates waiting round the back. For a business, especially the kind that involves big trucks and heavy metal, it’s always better to go in through the back. The customer-facing part of any modern business is purposely designed to be as politely unhelpful as possible. If you go in from the rear, the customer-facing staff are all facing the wrong way and everybody starts their conversation on the back foot.
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Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
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The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
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My deranged mother has written another book. This one is called The Bough and is even worse that the others. I refer not to its quality-it exhibits the usual 'coruscating wit' and 'penetrating social observation'-but to the extent to which it utilizes, as a kind of mulch pile, the lives of her children.
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I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
