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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."

"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."

"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."

"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."

"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."

"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."

"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."

"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war."
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