Genevieve Gorder Quotes

• Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Artist, Impact, People

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• And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Goodbye, Done, Intense

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• So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Death, People, Joy

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• The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Goodbye, Done, Break

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Pride, Artist, Color

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Designer, Havens, Hard

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Thinking, Guarded, Northerners

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Couple, Artist, People

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Home, Barns, Needs

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Artist, Curiosity, Intense

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• The birth of any show is always a rough one.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Birth, Rough, Shows

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• There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Differences, Training, Different

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Beautiful, Country, Artist

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• I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Summer, New York, Book

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• We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Running, Stress, Artist

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• So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Artist, House, Littles

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• Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Enough, Said

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• That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Jobs, Imagine, Harder

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• I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Powerful, Artist, Thinking

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Stupid, Reality, People

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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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  Stuff Happens, Done, Want

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Simplicity, Design, East

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• That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

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  Moving, Artist, Frustration

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Beautiful, Artist, Ideas

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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