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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
Percent
Getting
Best
Something
World
Rush

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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
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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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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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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 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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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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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 try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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My stories are character driven.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
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