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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Information
Soul
Irreplaceable
Tons
Computer
Inside

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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
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