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" My generation were all careerists. "

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" 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. "

" Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun. "

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

" My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. "

" It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "

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

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

" Men think a woman should not have an opinion. "

" As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I really believe in the idea of the future. "

" 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 have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

" I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. "

" What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. "