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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.

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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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People

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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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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People like to run their mouths.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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 also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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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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