The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasnt about money. It was about teaching, or learning. – Maya Lin
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. Were reaching a time that well acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. – 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. – 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 dont pry into other peoples business. – Maya Lin
Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasnt really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think thats really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her. – Bonnie Hunt