"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."

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Maya Lin

#Growing Up Quotes #White Quotes #Littles Quotes

“"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"”
“Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company
“Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.”
“Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.”
“Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.”
“I think marriage is ghastly.”
“What does my taste have to do with the personality of the person I'm working for? It's taking them through a journey of exposing them to stuff, and being able to form a dialogue between the place where they live and themselves. Other than trying to match the curtains to the couch, I don't know how to do that. If somebody asked me to design a really beautiful room, I don't know how to do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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