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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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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 don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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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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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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