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Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#bring #california #consider #cultural #day

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#anyone #bands #being #books #community

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#being #child #could #had #however

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#about #affected #attitudes #believe #came

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#another #anyway #been #certainly #complicated

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #change #characters #develop #happen

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#corrected #done #had #ideas #improved

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #correcting #course #expected #i

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#could #done #down #find #good

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#here #i #next #next year #olympic