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My friendships are very important to me.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

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My generation were all careerists.

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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

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My friendships are very important to me.

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When I taught, all my best students were women.

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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

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I really believe in the idea of the future.

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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

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