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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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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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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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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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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
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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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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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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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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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I think that in life you don't need too much; you need friends, you need to do what you like doing.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it
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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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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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My generation were all careerists.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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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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