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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
London
Somewhere
Else
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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
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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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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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You have to really believe not only in yourself you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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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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I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
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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.
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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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