Terry McMillan Quotes

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• If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

  Terry McMillan

  Terrible, Conclusion, Landing

  Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.412, Penguin

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

  Terry McMillan

  Writing, Heart, Use

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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.

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  Success, Trying, Energy

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.158, Penguin

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• I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

  Terry McMillan

  Light, Years, Waiting

  Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.414, Penguin

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• Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

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  Attention, Pay, About Yourself

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• It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

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  Believe, Want

  Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.412, Penguin

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• life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

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  Jigsaw Puzzles, Life Is Like, Together

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• Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

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  Writing, Feels, I Can

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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

  Believe, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

  Terry McMillan

  Writing, Heart, Care

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• don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

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  Greatness, Sabotage, Succumbing

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• Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

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  Writing, Bedtime, Willing

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• People like to run their mouths.

  Terry McMillan

  Running, People, Mouths

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  "Author Terry McMillan, Interrupted by Life". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2005.

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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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  Love, Confused, Passion

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.35, Penguin

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• Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

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  Worry, Skins, Want

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.67, Penguin

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• My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

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  Inspirational, Scary, Littles

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• happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

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  Certain, Behinds, Amount

  Terry McMillan (2002). “A Day Late and a Dollar Short”, p.222, Penguin

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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, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Self, People, Needs

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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

  Believe, Writing, Pride

  "Terry McMillan: On The Anguilla Literary Festival & Oprah’s Possible Role In ‘Waiting To Exhale’ Sequel". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.

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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

  Sibling, Writing, Lovers

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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

  Book, People, Worry

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• It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

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  Names, People, Giving

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.38, Penguin

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