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"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
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"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
"I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America."
"That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed."
"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
"It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here."
"Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected."
"Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable."
"The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year."
"Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs."
"As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow."
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"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."
"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."
"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy."
"Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone."
"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."
"I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice."
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