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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was a dummy in school."

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Amber Hurdle

"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."

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Amber Hurdle

"We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well."

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Amber Hurdle

"You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together."

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Amber Hurdle

"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."

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Maya Lin
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

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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 loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."

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Maya Lin
"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."

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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
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

War

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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
"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."

Time

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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."

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Maya Lin
"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

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