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" 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. "

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" My generation were all careerists. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. "

" 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 think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong. "

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

" 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 first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. "

" I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. "

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

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

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Women

" 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. "