Maya Lin Quotes

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

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• Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
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• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

  Sally Mann
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• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

  

  Tami Hoag
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• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
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• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
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• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
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• The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
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• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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• I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
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• A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

  

  Paula Patton
  • People
  • Music
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• I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Money
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  • Used

• A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

  

  Hafez Ibrahim
  • Great
  • School
  • Mother

• This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Father

• My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Father