"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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"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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"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."

Creativity

"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."

Work

"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."

Being

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

Curiosity

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

Difference

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

Love

"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."

Thought

"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."

Community

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

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"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."

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