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Amy Tan

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing."

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"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."

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"While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will."

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"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."

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"You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it."

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Donna Grant

"The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation."

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"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

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"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."

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"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores."

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Amy Tan
"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."

Hope

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Amy Tan
"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.'"

Thought

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Amy Tan
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."

Choice

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Amy Tan
"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."

Family

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Amy Tan
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

Writing

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Amy Tan
"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."

Family

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Amy Tan
"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."

Time

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Amy Tan
"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."

Family

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Amy Tan
"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

Bible

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Amy Tan
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

Burden

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