Quotes by Genevieve Gorder

About Genevieve Gorder:

Genevieve Gorder 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 the she currently resides in Manhattan with her daughter Bebelle.
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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...

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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 becau...

Genevieve Gorder

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

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

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The birth of any show is always a rough one.

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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

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameGenevieve Gorder
  • DescriptionAmerican interior designer
  • BornJuly 26, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America