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

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" In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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