Don Mcmillan Quotes

#1. When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

Lindsey Vonn

#2. If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

Len Wein

#3. When relationships don't work out, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you weren't meant to be together.

Tracy McMillan

#4. Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

Tracy McMillan

#5. Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Cecily McMillan

#6. We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.

Huey Newton

#7. 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.

Terry McMillan

#8. 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.

Terry McMillan

#9. Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#10. 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

#11. furnished, but by no means decorated,

Henry James

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.

Tracy McMillan

#16. Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

Terry McMillan

#17. Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.

Terry McMillan

#18. 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

#19. Don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Terry McMillan

#20. On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast.

Michel Houellebecq

#21. I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.

Terry McMillan

#22. Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

David Suzuki

#23. I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Terry McMillan

#24. Always listen to the parent who doesn't like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don't find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.

Terry McMillan

#25. You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

Terry McMillan

#26. I like gay men who don't hate women, and I don't mind being around rich white people, because there's plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans.

Terry McMillan

#27. Over the years it became clear that sometimes you fall in love only to realize you don't even like the person.

Terry McMillan

#28. I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

Terry McMillan

#29. The thing is, relationships never work out ... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Tracy McMillan

#30. I'm thinking there should be a dating site called "Tap That" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#31. I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

Cecily McMillan

#32. Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)

Benjamin Franklin

#33. 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