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
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say its done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. – 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. – 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. – 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