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"My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else."
"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium."
"And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on."
"My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!"
Explore more quotes by Maya Lin
"In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures."
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
"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."
"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."
"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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