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Maya Lin Quotes

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.

Maya Lin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Character Art Architecture

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Joan Jett

Power Create Band Old Company Out

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

Andrew Haigh

Me Performance Thinking Interesting

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

John Lyly

Love Best Hate Wine Deepest Vinegar

I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Robert Kiyosaki

Work Live Me Always Inspired Above

I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states.

Stephen Colbert

Live Simple Man Mind Me Believe

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.

Stella Maeve

Challenge People Think Reality Play

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

Roberto Bolano

I Am Think Say Same Everyone Sure

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Rush Limbaugh

Political Reporters Simply Activists

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Martin Scorsese

American More Up Side Italian East

I have a lot of love inside my house. I can't ask for more.

Miguel Cotto

Love House More Ask Inside Lot

I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.

Michael Korda

Me Political Meet Something Charisma

The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?

Luca Guadagnino

Vision Effort People Talking You