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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
- Nov 07, 2020
To fly we have to have resistance.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020