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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Tyler Perry

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
…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
You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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Fine Jealous People
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
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
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
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 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 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
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’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
It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
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Clear Day Land
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Emotion Helping Music
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
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
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
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
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
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
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Biggest Life Take This Successes
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 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
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
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
I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that’s the job of an actor.
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Character Jobs 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 degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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Degrees Label Wall

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