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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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 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 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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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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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My stories are character driven.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
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People like to run their mouths.
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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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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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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
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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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