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It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

Tyler Perry

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 try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it’s on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I’m supposed to write about.
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Paper Suppose Trying Writing
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
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
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Forgiveness Journey Powerful
The important thing for me is, and what I’d like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you’d find some pretty interesting things there.
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Opportunity People Thinking
God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.
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Choices Integrity Way
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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Being Different Giving Happened
It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
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Clear Day Land
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
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
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Amazing Special Woman
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
Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.
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Earth Life Live might
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
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
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
A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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Degrees Label Wall
Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
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Jobs Keys Summer
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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Come God Learned
You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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Fine Jealous People
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
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
Don’t stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
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Giving Ideas Water
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
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
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
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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Directors Looks Stories

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