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• I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, People, Want

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• The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  "New Again: Leonardo Dicaprio". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

  Tove Jansson

  Giving, Feelings, Gold

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• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  Hamish Bowles

  Uplifting, Country, Fashion

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• The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Fashion, Accessories, Pieces

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

  Albert Hadley

  Real, Design, Together

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• I also love real estate and decorating.

  Deana Carter

  Real, Estates

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• I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

  Max Greenfield

  Christmas, Stars, Wife

  "The GQA: Max Greenfield". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Views

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• Decorating has always been my hobby.

  Lee Radziwill

  Hobbies

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• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Sweet, Morning, Light

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• It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Angel, Artist, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1076, Library of Alexandria

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• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  Rick Astley

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.

  Robert Denning

  Cooking, Bores

  "Denning's Pot-au-Feu – A decorator indulges his passion for cuisine bourgeoise", by Suzanne Hart, House & Garden, March 1992.

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• I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.

  Barbra Streisand

  Psychology, Use, Wonderful

  Source: collider.com

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• Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

  George Monbiot

  Home, Thinking, Differences

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

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• On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wall, Book, Winning

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• I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Design, Fine, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?

  Suzanne Collins

  Waiting Around, Katniss, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

  Charlotte Moss

  Real, Mean, Ends

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• Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Bird, Robins

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• We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Culture, Building

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

  Katharine McPhee

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memories

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• All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

  William Morris

  Friendly, Looks, Rooms

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

  Charlotte Moss

  Home, Keys, Design

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