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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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.Maya Lin
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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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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
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I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
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