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Maya Lin

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

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Donna Grant

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Donna Grant

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Donna Grant

"Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."

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Donna Grant

"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over."

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Donna Grant

"We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."

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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
"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."

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Maya Lin
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

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Maya Lin
"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."

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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."

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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
"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

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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
"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical."

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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."

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