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

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" Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. "

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

" My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. "

" I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I taught, all my best students were women. "

" Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. "

" All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. "

" I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. "

" 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. "

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

" Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women. "

" I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme. "

" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "

" It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history. "

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

" I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. "

" 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. "

" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

" The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. "

" I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' "

" What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. "