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Maya Lin

"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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Donna Grant

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Donna Grant

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

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Donna Grant

"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."

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Donna Grant

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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Donna Grant

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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Donna Grant

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Donna Grant

"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."

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Donna Grant

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."

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Donna Grant

"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."

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Donna Grant

"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."

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Maya Lin
"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."

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Maya Lin
"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."

School

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Maya Lin
"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."

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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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Maya Lin
"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition."

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Maya Lin
"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."

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

School

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

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Maya Lin
"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."

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Maya Lin
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."

Love

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