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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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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Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were 'all there.'
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I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.
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I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to hell. Your marriage goes to hell. You don't know your children anymore. Your children have a higher chance of being screwed up.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
