Maya Lin Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
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I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
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I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
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Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
