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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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 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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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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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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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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 let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
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