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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
Inside
Information
Soul
Irreplaceable
Tons
Computer

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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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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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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
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