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

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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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People like to run their mouths.
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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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do 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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