“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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