Apartment Quotes - Page 8

• Whenever people tell me they don't know how to get inspired, I say "What's the matter with you?! I could stay in my apartment and be inspired!"

  Tim Gunn

  People, Matter, Inspired

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• You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing about art, I had met some artists in L.A. They said, "Why don't you try living out here?" So I traded apartments with the painter Delia Brown. That was in 2003. I loved it. I still love living there.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rain, People, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must still have rights and property. He must appropriate food to sustain his life. He must wear clothes which are his. He must have his private and exclusive apartment, and must have the right to be in some place on God's earth from which he cannot be evicted by landlord of society.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Rights, Clothes, Earth

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• This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Sorry, Believe, Home

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Color, Different, Rooms

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• Ever since I've become a filmmaker, I'm traveling the world a lot. I feel like I'm a citizen of the world, yet there's no single place that I can put my roots down and call home. I don't own anything. I'm not a homeowner. I've always rented and never stayed in one place for long. Almost every time I rent a place, I have some sort of water leakage or flooding. Whenever that happens, I just move somewhere else. Even when I moved to Paris, my apartment started leaking after a month. Maybe the leaking is just part of my life, doomed to follow me around.

  Tsai Ming-liang

  Moving, Home, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.

  Mary McCarthy

  Coffee, Marine, Gone

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Cooking, Ceilings

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• [When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Heart, Men, Paris

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• I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's Saint Laurent apartment, it is being sold because he's dead. But I won't be furnishing my home from Ikea.

  Pierre Berge

  Home, House, Saint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a lot. Jed Johnson decorated my apartment in New York, at the Pierre. It was his first job.

  Pierre Berge

  People, Wonderful, Warhol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

  Robert Denning

  Views, Rivers, East

  "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern" by Cynthia Zarin, Architectural Digest, v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152, April 2002.

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• I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.

  Sarah Silverman

  Mean, Successful, Three

  "Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, and Roseanne Barr Talk Judaism, F-bombs, and Radical Feminism". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And I did. Back then, on $125, you could do that in Manhattan. I was 19 years old the first time I got published and paid. I think it was a hundred bucks. I stared at my name on the check for 20 minutes.

  Nick Tosches

  Thinking, Drunk, Enough

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

  Dorothy Parker

  Real, Agents, Few Friends

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• The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Elderly

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.9

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• And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Memories

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I love Seattle, but I am definitely excited to be in a new place. Growing up there and then living in an apartment in the city for seven years, I just felt stagnant.

  Robin Pecknold

  Growing Up, Excited, Seven

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• I live out of a bag. I just looked at what's going on for me, I'm not gonna be back in England for more than a week between now and March of next year, I think, which is crazy. By that time the lease is up on my apartment! I'm getting a kick out of being homeless.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Crazy, Thinking, March

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• I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Football, Cutting, Past

  Source: www.muscleandfitness.com

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• Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.

  G-Eazy

  Rap, Humble, Ambition

  Source: 215mag.com

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• I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.

  Kirsten Powers

  Joy, Mind, Doubt

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