Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
TYLER PERRYI look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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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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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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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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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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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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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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There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
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I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.
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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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