Tillman's Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Tillman's Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge.— Maureen Dowd
But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change.
It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.— Lynne Tillman
These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience.— George Tillman Jr.
Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept— Graeme Simsion
I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.— Lynne Tillman
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic.— Lynne Tillman
[From Pat]— Marie Tillman
I know someday you'll have the life you dream ...
And, I know this direction will ultimately lead to happiness.
However, despite what I know ...
Regardless of our direction, dreams, or path ...
I know we have each other and that I love you ...
And that's all I need to know.
Pat
![Tillman's Sayings By Marie Tillman: [From Pat]I know someday you'll have the life you dream ...And, I know this direction](https://www.greatsayings.net/images/tillmans-sayings-by-marie-tillman-2055996.jpg "Tillman's Sayings By Marie Tillman: [From Pat]I know someday you'll have the life you dream ...And, I know this direction")
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'— George Tillman Jr.
In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner of endeavors that only really require skill, fortitude and a little daring, the qualities Pat Tillman showed on the football field. Pat's best service to his country was to remind us all what courage really looks like, and that the purpose of all good courage is love.— John McCain
Filmmakers are always in a bubble; along with our crew or writer, we don't really get to socialize with other filmmakers, so the great thing about Sundance is you can see many other filmmakers doing the same thing you do.— George Tillman Jr.
When I was working on 'Men of Honor' with Robert De Niro, there's a pipe that he has in the movie, and it took us about six weeks to find the right pipe for him to use and feel comfortable with. It was a great choice, because it was really about what worked with the camera at that time.— George Tillman Jr.
In depression, you're flattened. Your energy level is gone. When I'm anxious, I tend to have more energy. But it depends on the nature of the anxiety. The anxiety to finish something would seem to be more productive than the anxiety that says, "You're feeling sick."— Lynne Tillman
And I really haven't done a damn thing.— Pat Tillman
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.— Lynne Tillman
A book coming out into the world can be a harsh, harsh time. And your feelings are on the line. Everything that publication is about is really not what your writing is about. Your writing is coming out of something else, and publication and being in the public are something else. And those of us who have published, in whatever way we're published, are very fortunate.— Lynne Tillman
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.— Lynne Tillman
Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.— Lynne Tillman
It's called 'Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness,' and it's about Miles Davis, the genius, and why he was the way he was, and how he changed music so many times. He changed music six times. So, I'm excited about that movie.— George Tillman Jr.
Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.— George Tillman Jr.
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.— Henry Tillman
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my mind, and she has her thoughts, which range from skin to American history, philosophy, and the arts.— Lynne Tillman
As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.— George Tillman Jr.
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.— Lynne Tillman
Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.— Nancy Tillman
Love is just an institution ...— J. Tillman
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.— J. Tillman
People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.— Lynne Tillman
My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps.— J. Tillman
![Tillman's Sayings By J. Tillman: My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out](https://www.greatsayings.net/images/tillmans-sayings-by-j-tillman-235265.jpg "Tillman's Sayings By J. Tillman: My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out")
He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.— Marie Tillman
Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.— George Tillman Jr.
Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.— Charles Tillman
It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together.— George Tillman Jr.
There are no such things as problems, only solutions!— Lowell Tillman Jr.
The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism— Jon Krakauer
his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.— Laura Tillman
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.— J. Tillman
Passion is kind of an important word for me, whether it's playing sports or whether it's just living or whatever you're going to do. In my opinion you should be passionate about it or else, why do it?— Pat Tillman
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.— Lynne Tillman
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.— Lynne Tillman
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.— J. Tillman
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.— J. Tillman
I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.— J. Tillman
I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.— Lynne Tillman
Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.— J. Tillman
There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.— George Tillman Jr.
I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.— George Tillman Jr.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.— J. Tillman
My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.— Lynne Tillman
When Pat asked me the life, he didn't mean just that I should travel and have fun, although that was certainly part of it. He also meant that there's a weight to all of our lives, and he didn't want me to be frivolous with mine. If was a tragedy that Pat's life - while fully lived - was cut short. But it's also a tragedy to live a long life that isn't meaningful.— Marie Tillman
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.— George Tillman Jr.
I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.— J. Tillman
I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.— J. Tillman
It's going back to old school, the way it was done and I'm finding out there is something different, a little interesting. There is something just a little fresh about it because I haven't seen it done like that in a little while. I'm embracing it, you know.— George Tillman Jr.
I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.— J. Tillman
I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer ... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop".— George Tillman Jr.
Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.— J. Tillman
The mind is a powerful tool.— Charles Tillman
I didn't understand the Los Angeles atmosphere.— George Tillman Jr.
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.— Lynne Tillman
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.— J. Tillman
Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.' This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.— Graeme Simsion
Even looking at my last film, 'Notorious,' you got a perception about B.I.G. and who he was, but there was a different side to him.— George Tillman Jr.
Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country).— Peter Boghossian
Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You ... Ever in the World.— Nancy Tillman
I play sad bastard music. For the money.— J. Tillman
You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.— Barrett Tillman
Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.— Graeme Simsion
What? An alien. You think I'm from outer space." She snorts in disbelief. "I'm Kelly Tillman, you dumb-ass. From 41 Montana Avenue, Valentine, Texas. What's left of it. I canned seventh grade for a piece-of-crap job with lousy tips and lousy hours. You ain't telling me I'm the outsider here. No way.— Philip Webb
I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'— George Tillman Jr.
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.— Charles Tillman
Our lives should have depth, which means pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and not taking the easy way out all the time.— Marie Tillman
Certainly there will always be stories,— Lynne Tillman
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.— Lynne Tillman
I used to get so upset with my father. I'd ask him, 'Why do I have to be around all these women all the time?' But in time, I learned that was an advantage.— George Tillman Jr.
You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.— J. Tillman
Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that we film and the characterizations in the scenes can come out interesting. And I really feel good about that, going into it.— George Tillman Jr.
Is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver ... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending, at the same time it helps you for a sequel too. Those are the things that I think are attractive, it's more, its real life, and people can identify with it and it just grounds it to a certain degree. That's the reason why.— George Tillman Jr.
Energy is what I had lived so long beside. Energy is who I had married - the energy that permeates life, that comes out of every pore and explodes into the world.— Marie Tillman
I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation.— Lynne Tillman
It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.— George Tillman Jr.
You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.— George Tillman Jr.
I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.— Lynne Tillman
I have a theory that everyone is as odd as I am when they are alone.— Graeme Simsion
Don Tillman
There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.— Lynne Tillman
I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.— J. Tillman
I want to see that 'Anita' documentary. I want to see 'Lovelace'; I want to see 'After Midnight,' because I saw the other two and I loved them. I thought the last one was great.— George Tillman Jr.
I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.— Lynne Tillman
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.— J. Tillman
So why the stress?" said Gene. "You have had sex before?"— Graeme Simsion
"Of course," I said. "My doctor is strongly in favor."
"Frontiers of medical science," said Gene.
He was probably making a joke. I think the value of regular sex has been known for some time. I explained further. "It's just adding a second person makes it complicated.
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.— Lynne Tillman
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.— Barrett Tillman
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.— J. Tillman
Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.— Lynne Tillman
You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.— Lynne Tillman
When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.— Lynne Tillman
I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.— George Tillman Jr.
Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.— Lynne Tillman
Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.— George Tillman Jr.
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.— Jerry Saltz
It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.— J. Tillman
