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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
Designer
Land Artist
Landscape Architect
Printmaker
Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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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.
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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We were unusually brought up there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
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You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
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I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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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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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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