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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

Tyler Perry

Once you’re truly happy with yourself alone, that’s when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
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Happiness Life Rest Safe
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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Alive Jail Statistics
I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything’s solved, and it’s great and wonderful. You’re a perfect human being.
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Human People Perfect Thinking
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
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Hurt Learn Love Needing Pain
Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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Mother Southern Term
If you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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Done Giving Moving
If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money…
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Good Money Trying Want
…when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That’s the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
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Causes Differences Dresses
I have this huge, huge fan base of people who’ve never seen a Broadway show, but I think it’s a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you’re getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.
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Broadway Fans People Thinking
I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I’m sorry, I’m still on the last caller.
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People Sorry Thinking
It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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Important Mind Positivity
There’s nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don’t hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn’t know and for the things they didn’t know to do.
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Deep Down Grudge People Real
I thank God for Closed Doors
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Closed Doors Doors God Thank
Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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Laughing Lesson Life People
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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Dream Give Up Thinking
A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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Degrees Label Wall
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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Boys Children Mother
What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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Learned Treats Women Rights
We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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Light People Waiting
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
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Certain Country Years
I’m very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I’m all for the underdog, so I’d like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.
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Different People Underdog
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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God Good People Thousand
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
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Growing Important Moving Up
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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Being Different Giving Happened
You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I’m putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don’t feel like it’s dressing in drag.
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Drag People Uniforms
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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Distance Mother Powerful
I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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Inspiration Inspire People

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

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