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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

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
Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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Dope Light Waiting
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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Brain Film Wraps
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
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Being Just Knowing Peace
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
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
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
I think there’s something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think – you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
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Caring People Thinking
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Emotion Helping Music
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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Being Different Giving Happened
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
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
Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.
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Blessed People Trying
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 got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
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Beats. Doing Heck People
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

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