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Genevieve Gorder

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

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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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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

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"My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone."

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"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."

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"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."

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"No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical."

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"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

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"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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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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"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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"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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"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."
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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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"There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different."
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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."
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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."
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"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
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