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Maya Lin

"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."

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"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."

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"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium."

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"If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully."

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"I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same."

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"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!"

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"I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in."

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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."

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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."

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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."

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"My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque."

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Maya Lin
"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."

Father

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Maya Lin
"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."

Death

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Maya Lin
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."

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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."

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Maya Lin
"The role of art in society differs for every artist."

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"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."

Class

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Maya Lin
"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."

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"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."

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"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."

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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."

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