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Tyler Perry Quotes

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

Tyler Perry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 14, 1969 - September 13, 1969

Topics

Learning Moment Me Learn Attention

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

John Howe

Work Opportunity Interesting Website

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

Jeanne Shaheen

America Security National Security

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

John Stumpf

Money Me Cleaning Others Up Made

Once I went through therapy, it completely changed my life.

Miles Heizer

Life My Life Therapy Through Changed

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Josh Young

Love Performance End Doing Strange

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

Plan Know Never Happen Going Novel

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Brian Eno

Attention You Want Way Engage Beat

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Arthur Erickson

Experience Building You See Film

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

Anthony Minghella

Time Money Trying Chair Understand

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

Peter Ackroyd

Love Money Me Law Game Guilt

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.

Sheila Heti

Character Me Thoughts Writing Book

A soup manufacturer uses the same colors and design on every label to catch the consumer's eye and assure her that she's getting brand-name quality, whether she's buying bean soup or corn chowder or cream of tomato.

Leigh Michaels

Quality Colors Eye Soup Design She