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Genevieve Gorder Inspirational Quotes (17)

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When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.
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I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
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Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
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I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
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There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
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Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.
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It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
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Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.
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I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.
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I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
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It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
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So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
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But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.
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That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.
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I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
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The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
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You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.
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