Maya Lin | learning
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.
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Maya Lin | home
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It’s more evident now.
Maya Lin | freedom
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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Maya Lin | family
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Maya Lin | death
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.
Maya Lin | dad
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Maya Lin | business
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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