299 Quotes by Tyler Perry


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    Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.

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    Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.

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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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    My father who was there in the house, he wasn’t at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

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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 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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    I didn’t have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don’t, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

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    My mother wasn’t strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

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