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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" My friendships are very important to me. "

" Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My generation were all careerists. "