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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" The role of art in society differs for every artist. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" To fly we have to have resistance. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" All my work is much more peaceful than I am. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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