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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."

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Asa Don Brown

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Asa Don Brown

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Asa Don Brown

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

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Asa Don Brown

"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."

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Asa Don Brown

"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."

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Asa Don Brown

"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another."

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Asa Don Brown

"Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure."

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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 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
"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."

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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
"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."

Architecture

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Maya Lin
"A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time."

Time

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Maya Lin
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."

Life

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Maya Lin
"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art."

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

Father

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