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Terry McMillan Quotes

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1951

Topics

Writing Admit Willing Few Writers

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

Fun Conservative Kid Fraternity Sure

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Love Think You Create Person Claim

I want to do everything. I want to do commercials, endorsements. I want to design.

Design Want Everything Commercials

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

People Think You Way I Think

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

Budget Donald Trump Military Dramatic

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Music Experience Ask Profound First

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.

Time Day School Child Bridge End

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

Lucia Micarelli

Trying Try Out Things Natural Where

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

Douglas Tompkins

God Growing Up Society Road Believe

There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.

Christopher Guest

Good Business People Looking Think

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Bruce Springsteen

Life People Believe You Try Outside

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

Pink Tomboy Just Much Ballet Very

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