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" If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. "

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" For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. "

" The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. "

" To fly we have to have resistance. "

" 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. "

" It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. "

" To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. "

" Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. "

" Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. "

" 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. "

" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. "

" You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. "

" We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. "

" Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. "

" My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. "

" My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. "

" Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. "

" Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. "

" How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. "

" It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. "

" Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. "

" You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. "

" 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. "

" It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. "

" 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. "

" It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it. "

" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "

" OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. "