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Maya Lin Quotes

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: October 5, 1959

Topics

Family Letters Little China Get

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

Love Honesty Best Tough Think You

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.

Robert Gottlieb

House Complicated Greatest Been Plot

My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.

Jeff Vandermeer

Time Job Mom Computers Before

I don't actually like touring.

Like Touring Actually

We need a president that's going to be focused on growth.

Growth Focused President Need Going

I find Mormons adorable.

Find Adorable Mormons

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

Truth Men Woman Man Leaf Truth Is

Anything I can do to help destroy ISIS, I will support that.

Support Help I Can Will Anything

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Minoru Yamasaki

Change Painting Think Furniture Wall

Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'

Life Best Money Small Book Think

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Construction Powerful Cooperation

I don't need anything to get me up at the gym other than 'Metallica' and 'AC/DC'.

Me Gym Need Up Anything Get

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