Genevieve Gorder Quotes

• 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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Beautiful, Idea

• 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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Designers

• 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

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Human, Spirit

• 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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Historic, Building, Community

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Beautiful, Things

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, New York

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

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City

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

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Celebrity, Intense, Curiosity

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Ourselves, Function

• 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.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Designer, Frustration, Relationship

• The birth of any show is always a rough one.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Birth, Show

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Relationship, Studio

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People

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

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Execute, Design

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Relationships, Neighbors

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

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Design, Impact

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationships

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Audience, Members

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

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself

• 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

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Self, Solution

Genevieve Gorder (26)

Birth:	26th July, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Interior Designer, Television Presenter

About

Genevieve Gorder was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an American television host and interior designer. She is currently the host of Genevieve's Renovation , "White House Christmas" and Dear Genevieve on the HGTV cable channel. A judge on HGTV's Design Star and she currently resides in Manhattan with her daughter Bebelle. Before being known as a designer, she appeared as a commentator on the MTV series, Sex in the '90s. She was one of the original designers of the TLC's hit series Trading Spaces. She graduated with a B.F.A in design from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

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