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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…

Tyler Perry

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.
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Boys New Orleans Swimming
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
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
…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’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
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People Want Suspicious
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
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
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
You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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Fine Jealous People
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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God Good People Thousand
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
I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There’s something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that’s really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
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Curve Feet Shoes
It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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Behnd Costume Esasier
He who has the gold makes the rules.
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Celebrity Gold Inspirational Rules
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
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
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
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
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Emotion Helping Music
What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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Learned Treats Women Rights
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
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
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Amazing Special Woman
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
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
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

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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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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