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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
Better
Self
Need
Sometimes
Needs
People
Reinvent
Selves

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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do 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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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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People like to run their mouths.
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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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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 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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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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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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I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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My stories are character driven.
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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'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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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