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Zaha Hadid
British
July 25, 1950
Architect
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
Zaha Hadid
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Architecture
Very
Difficult
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
Zaha Hadid
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Music
Like
Country
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
Zaha Hadid
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Between
America
Lack
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
Zaha Hadid
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Power
People
Up
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
Zaha Hadid
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Lot
Made
School
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.
Zaha Hadid
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Men
Power
War
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.
Zaha Hadid
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Work
More
Always
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.
Zaha Hadid
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You
People
Me
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.
Zaha Hadid
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Great
You
Think
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.
Zaha Hadid
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Think
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