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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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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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 try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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