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Maya Lin

"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."

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"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."

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Amber Hurdle

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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Amber Hurdle

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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Amber Hurdle

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

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Amber Hurdle

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

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Amber Hurdle

"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

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Amber Hurdle

"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."

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Amber Hurdle

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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Maya Lin
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."

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Maya Lin
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."

Architecture

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Maya Lin
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

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Maya Lin
"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

Thought

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Maya Lin
"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."

Childhood

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Maya Lin
"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."

Deep

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Maya Lin
"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."

American

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Maya Lin
"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."

Home

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Maya Lin
"I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd."

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Maya Lin
"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."

Architecture

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