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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.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Sometimes
Asked
Every
Gets
Like
Four
Reading
Times
Interviewing
Three
Readings
Littles
Tedious
Little
Questions

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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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