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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.Collection: Zaha
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.Collection: Zaha
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.Collection: Zaha
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.Collection: Zaha
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.Collection: Zaha
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.Collection: Zaha
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.Collection: Zaha
As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.Collection: Zaha
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.Collection: Zaha
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.Collection: Zaha
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.Collection: Zaha
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.Collection: Zaha
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.Collection: Zaha
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.Collection: Zaha
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.Collection: Zaha
Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.Collection: Zaha
My generation were all careerists.Collection: Zaha