Candice Olson Quote

A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, wh...
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Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worke...
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I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept ma...
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There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knock...
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it...
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Li...
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want...
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We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing ever...
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The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take...
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going ...
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best yo...
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Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will hav...
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better...
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abili...
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxuriou...
CANDICE OLSON

With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcom...
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room wi...
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I ...
CANDICE OLSON

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of te...
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The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's ...
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predomina...
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially fr...
CANDICE OLSON

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravi...
CANDICE OLSON

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. ...
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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
CANDICE OLSON

Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive ex...
CANDICE OLSON

There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of ...
CANDICE OLSON

We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area fro...
CANDICE OLSON

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust m...
CANDICE OLSON

I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroo...
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
CANDICE OLSON

When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with t...
CANDICE OLSON

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
CANDICE OLSON

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to exp...
CANDICE ACCOLA

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
CANDICE BERGEN

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
CANDICE BERGEN

Were women meant to do everything-work and have babies?
CANDICE BERGEN

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. Peopl...
CANDICE BERGEN

Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will ...
CANDICE BERGEN

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed....
CANDICE BERGEN

I remember the pilot like it was yesterday, ... From the day I read that script, there was some kind...
CANDICE BERGEN

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans
CANDICE BERGEN

I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's on...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Victoria's Secret is like a big family.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me....
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Tw...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar...
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I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kin...
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's jus...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in ...
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Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I f...
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I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I ...
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My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone t...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They ju...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is se...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. ...
CANDICE PATTON

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
CANDICE PATTON

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
CANDICE PATTON

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
CANDICE PATTON

The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
CANDICE PATTON

I'm very interested in science.
CANDICE MILLARD

Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the...
CANDICE MILLARD

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
CANDICE MILLARD

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore ...
CANDICE MILLARD

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the gre...
CANDICE MILLARD

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely i...
CANDICE MILLARD

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United...
CANDICE MILLARD

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance...
CANDICE MILLARD

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and ther...
CANDICE MILLARD

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But G...
CANDICE MILLARD

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest rew...
CANDICE MILLARD

Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm ge...
CANDICE GLOVER

I'm such a perfectionist.
CANDICE GLOVER

I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career ...
CANDICE GLOVER

In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, ...
CANDICE GLOVER

It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and thin...
CANDICE GLOVER

My main focus is to help people through music.
CANDICE GLOVER

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, s...
CANDICE GLOVER

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choic...
CANDICE BERGEN

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
CANDICE BERGEN

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu...
CANDICE BERGEN

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It hap...
CANDICE BERGEN

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
CANDICE BERGEN

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age ...
CANDICE BERGEN

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she woul...
CANDICE BERGEN

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
CANDICE BERGEN

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
CANDICE BERGEN

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collap...
CANDICE BERGEN

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
CANDICE BERGEN

Glamorized... am I glamorous?
CANDICE BERGEN

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
CANDICE BERGEN

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
CANDICE BERGEN

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was mo...
CANDICE BERGEN

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
CANDICE BERGEN

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
CANDICE BERGEN

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
CANDICE BERGEN

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. Peopl...
CANDICE BERGEN

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by...
CANDICE BERGEN

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
CANDICE BERGEN

I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afra...
CANDICE ACCOLA

If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minute...
CANDICE ACCOLA

For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Cle...
CANDICE ACCOLA

It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the '...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horri...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonat...
CANDICE ACCOLA

There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going...
CANDICE ACCOLA

Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video'...
CANDICE ACCOLA

In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best sum...
CANDICE ACCOLA

My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Espec...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind...
CANDICE ACCOLA

It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and...
CANDICE ACCOLA

With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. Yo...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I'm a television junkie.
CANDICE ACCOLA

When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy br...
CANDICE BERGEN

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by bri...
CANDICE BERGEN

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone les...
CANDICE BERGEN

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I thin...
CANDICE BERGEN

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to...
CANDICE BERGEN

I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

All things in the report are not unique to Keene State College. They reflect what is happening every...
CANDICE WIGGUM

It is very important for us to get the community involved in suicide prevention. Eighty percent don'...
CANDICE WIGGUM

Essentially the report made things crystal clear. [The Diversity Commission] knew things were going ...
CANDICE WIGGUM

It was given to 29 colleges and organizations around the country to really do some work on suicide p...
CANDICE WIGGUM

I got a little dizzy before the game but by then it was too late. I think the competitive nature and...
CANDICE WIGGINS

Courtney was so dominant in high school and it's always hard to know how somebody is going to do at ...
CANDICE WIGGINS

It's all about going out and being as competitive as you can and wanting to win.
CANDICE WIGGINS

We are a young team. We start two freshmen and Brooke (Smith) and I are only in our second year of p...
CANDICE WIGGINS

It was a good reminder. I never want to feel like we did at Boston and Washington. We won't forget i...
CANDICE WIGGINS

I've never experienced back-to-back losses in college. It's difficult to handle a loss in general an...
CANDICE WIGGINS

I cannot think of one post player in the country I'd rather have on my team than Brooke. I'm just re...
CANDICE WIGGINS

Losing is painful. But when we lose, the next game we come out tougher.
CANDICE WIGGINS

It was a lot different this year not having the automatic bid. We'll bring a whole new attitude and ...
CANDICE WIGGINS

I think it?s really natural to have nerves, and it took us awhile to shake them off. But we were fin...
CANDICE WIGGINS

Right now it's our understanding that the jobs would be cut in management.
CANDICE JOHNSON

This is about keeping good-quality jobs and keeping access for our members to these good-quality job...
CANDICE JOHNSON

The association will work to negotiate a contract that will cover everybody.
CANDICE JOHNSON

We're going to keep bargaining down to the very last minute, but it seems increasingly unlikely that...
CANDICE JOHNSON

I think it's a good agreement for both sides. I think it reflects that Qwest recognized that the uni...
CANDICE JOHNSON

We think it's just not good corporate governance to have a system where a person who owns less than ...
CANDICE JOHNSON

Retirement security is very important for our members, along with health care, so in bargaining, we ...
CANDICE JOHNSON

You're always hopeful in contract talks. Both sides want to reach a settlement, but at this point no...
CANDICE JOHNSON

The executive board acted on reports from the CWA bargaining team, which indicated that many critica...
CANDICE JOHNSON

We are not permitted to discuss the details but [negotiators] met all day yesterday. Talks may not b...
CANDICE JOHNSON

So we have more than enough to keep the E ring from disappearing.
CANDICE HANSEN

We will get stereo images within a month.
CANDICE HANSEN

It's going to be the most exotic place we've ever seen. We've never landed on the surface of an icy ...
CANDICE HANSEN

We are already learning new things about the Saturn system. We will fly by Phoebe on June 11th and t...
CANDICE HANSEN

Those are the kinds of things that we have theories about, but we really don't have data.
CANDICE HANSEN

[Finding living organisms, however, is a remote possibility.] It is not out of the question, but it ...
CANDICE HANSEN

It was the same thing I've been seeing for every single game. I just think we didn't have enough mov...
CANDICE DUPREE

We just wanted it real bad. We knew it was going to be the third in a row.
CANDICE DUPREE

We were more prepared to deal with their physical play this year. I think we caught them off guard w...
CANDICE DUPREE

We're trying to get her to work on staying low, posting up instead of standing so straight up. I thi...
CANDICE DUPREE

When she gets mad enough, I think that's when she plays the best. That goes for a lot of post player...
CANDICE DUPREE

Lady has much talent, and she'll be expected to produce more next season. She has a bright future.
CANDICE DUPREE

It was the same thing I've seen in every single game. I honestly didn't think we had enough movement...
CANDICE DUPREE

Genius appears in those who are able to make connections between disparate subjects and develop some...
CANDICE CAIN

We are making improvements every day, every practice. I think we've all found a rhythm. Our roles ar...
CANDICE WIGGINS

We had the game and we felt we had control. I guess with every loss some good comes out of it but we...
CANDICE WIGGINS

It's a huge weekend. It's important to make a statement. We have a whole half to go, but we definite...
CANDICE WIGGINS

Glamorized ... am I glamorous?
CANDICE BERGEN

There are always runs and spurts, and once we got it going we got a lot of confidence. I like it whe...
CANDICE WIGGINS

Stripped from context, once a good quote lands in a reader's hands it has great freedom.
CANDICE CAIN

Death will be my only peace, many of us await it with a candle in the window.
CANDICE CAIN

Where you are born, the color of your skin; these are not the only nor are they the best methods to ...
CANDICE CAIN

A system cannot excel beyond that of its lowest common denominator.
CANDICE CAIN

We're in a position of eyeing the league championship. But we're not going to get ahead of ourselves...
CANDICE SORBERA

I never trust people who speak with declaratives such as "always" or "never" because there are alway...
CANDICE CAIN

In conversation the end results depend not on what one says but on what the other hears.
CANDICE CAIN

The more things you have in your life that make you happy the more often you'll be happy.
CANDICE CAIN

There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

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There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

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