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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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Donna Grant

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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Donna Grant

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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Donna Grant

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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Donna Grant

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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Donna Grant

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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Donna Grant

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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Donna Grant

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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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."

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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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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."

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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."

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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."

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