Maya Lin Quotes
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
Quotes to Explore
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.
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I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
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I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
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You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
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When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
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Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
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She felt that the years she had dedicated to him had been in vain.
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Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
