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You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

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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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I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.
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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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You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.
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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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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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I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.
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I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!
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If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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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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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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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
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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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You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one yes from God.
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As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.
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I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.
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