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" 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. "

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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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" The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. "

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

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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. "

" I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. "

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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. "