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The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

Tyler Perry

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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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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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We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.
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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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It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.
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