I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. … - Maya Lin

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Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

Maya Lin

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.

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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.

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

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The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

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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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Mark Hoppus

Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

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In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.

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The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

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