Genevieve Gorder Quotes

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Genevieve Gorder

Profession : Designer

Birth : July 26, 1974

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.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

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

Genevieve Gorder

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Genevieve Gorder

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

Genevieve Gorder

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

Genevieve Gorder

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

Genevieve Gorder

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

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Genevieve Gorder