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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

Tyler Perry

What excites me? Had you asked me that question a few years ago, the answer would’ve rolled right off my tongue. Today, I think it’s moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
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Moving Thinking Uplifting
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
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Emotion Helping Music
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
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 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
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Amazing Special Woman
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
People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
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Hurt People Trying
I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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Boxes Life Living Outside
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
I’ve always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he’s a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
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Actors Hollywood Thinking
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
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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God Good People Thousand
What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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Learned Treats Women Rights
A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
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Causes Enough Mystery
It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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Behnd Costume Esasier
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
It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
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Clear Day Land
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
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

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