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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

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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

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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. – Maya Lin

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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

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. – Kenneth Clark

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Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. – Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

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