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Maya Lin

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

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Donna Grant

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Donna Grant

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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

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."

School

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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."

Politics

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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."

Art

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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."

Parents

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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."

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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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