Genevieve Gorder Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Function

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

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  Tags in Decorator, Designers

• 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

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

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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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  Tags in Designer, Frustration, Relationship

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

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

  Genevieve Gorder

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  Tags in City

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

  Genevieve Gorder

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  Tags in Celebrity, Intense, Curiosity

• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Historic, Building, Community

• 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

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  Tags in Human, Spirit

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

  Genevieve Gorder

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  Tags in Show, Hosts

• 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

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  Tags in Self, New York

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

  Genevieve Gorder

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• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Contractors

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

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  Tags in People, New York

• 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

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  Tags in People, Relationship, Studio

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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