Quotes by Terry Mcmillan - Page 2

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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Black
People
Prison
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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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Interpersonal
Lovers
Sibling
Writing
Interested
Relationships
Treat
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It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Don't Care
God Time Me
Prayers
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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!
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Doe
Mind
Needs
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I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
African American
Cleaning
Life Mother My Life
Life Live My Life
Everybody Else
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Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Attractive
Failing
Special
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Men
Giving
Tired
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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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Believe
Musician
Pride
Sound
Voice
Writing
Believe Yourself Your
Distinct
Young People
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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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Divorce
Heart
Suffering
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Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Book
People
Worry
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I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
I Can
Waiting
Identified
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There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Attention
Critics
Flaws
Looks
Popularity
Weakness
Worthy
Work Your Look
Fluke
Price
Seem
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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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Four
Reading
Three
Day Sometimes Every Day
Interviewing
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What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Confused
Texture
Evolving
Women Men Confused
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It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Men
Guilty
Thinking
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As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Attention
Believe
People
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Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Home
Home Town
House
People
Raised
Saved
Home World Me
Representative
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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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Affected
Compassionate
Empathetic
People
Thinking
Tragedy
Tragedies
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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!)
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Advice
Doe
Writing
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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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Kids
Mother
Writing
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Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Success
Energy
Trying
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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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Children
People
Thinking
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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.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Jobs
Heart
Lonely
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I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Character
Emotional
Philosophy
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I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.
Terry Mcmillan / Author
Age
Long
Mirrors
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Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.
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Teacher
Careers
Mother
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