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Maya Lin

"I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on."

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Donna Grant

"I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style."

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Donna Grant

"I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results."

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Donna Grant

"I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me."

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like."

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Donna Grant

"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."

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Donna Grant

"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."

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Donna Grant

"Today, we are not just launching a project that will irrigate land and light up homes. We are reviving a region, restoring hope, renewing life and redefining Afghanistan's future. The dam is a generator not just of electricity but also of optimism and belief in the future of Afghanistan."

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Donna Grant

"There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center."

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Donna Grant

"I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet."

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Donna Grant

"With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it."

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

Idea

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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."

Nature

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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
"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
"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."

Architecture

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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
"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 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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