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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.
Genevieve Gorder
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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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Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
Genevieve Gorder
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Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
Genevieve Gorder
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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
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I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.
Genevieve Gorder
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There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
Genevieve Gorder
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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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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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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
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Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.
Genevieve Gorder
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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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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
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So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
Genevieve Gorder
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