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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Best
Something
World
Rush
Percent
Getting

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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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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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My stories are character driven.
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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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