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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
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Getting
Best
Something
World
Rush

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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 also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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 don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
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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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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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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 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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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My stories are character driven.
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