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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Self
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Sometimes
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People
Reinvent
Selves
Better

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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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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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 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'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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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 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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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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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