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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."
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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."

"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."

"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."

"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"

"Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful."

"Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!"

"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."

"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."

"Always celebrate people for who they are."

"You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life."
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"There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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