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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Agitate
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Attention
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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