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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"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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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"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."
Architecture
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
"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."
Goal
"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."
Brother
"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
"All my work is much more peaceful than I am."
Work
"Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next."
Nothing
"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."
Thought
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
Authority
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
Love
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