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My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.
Jonathan Anderson /
Antiques
Grandfather
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My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
Paris Hilton / Actress
Girl
Mom
Antiques
House
Lots
Liked
Decorated
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I'm not a big fan of antiques shows or 'Cash In The Attic.' I don't care about the rubbish in your loft! I don't find it stimulating in any way.
Emma Willis /
Antiques
Cash
Don't Care
Rubbish
Your Care Way
Attic
Big Fan
Fan
Stimulating
Loft
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Californians are not so precious about their antiques, not so nervous about what others will think if they mix classic with modern, old with new.
David Linley /
Antiques
Californians
New Will Old
Mix
Precious
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The thing is, if you come on the 'Roadshow' we are not going to humiliate you. The thing about the 'Antiques Roadshow' is not to humiliate people.
Fiona Bruce / Journalist
Antiques
Humiliate
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You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
Ted Hughes / Poet
Antiques
Letters
Talent
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I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Home
Antiques
Watches
Weekend
Drinks
Go Home
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When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.
Dita Von Teese /
Antiques
Old Things
Shopping
Watched
Little Girl
Old Movies
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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
Mimi Sheraton /
Antiques
Cities
Glasses
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'Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'
Lara Spencer / Journalist
Antiques
Bother
Husband
Monday
Monday Night
Night
Popcorn
Television
Appointment
Show
Favorite
Favorite Show
Hour
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White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.
Lilith Saintcrow / Author
Antiques
Sunshine
White
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I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
Jessica Chastain / Film Actress
Antiques
Wink
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It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.
Tyler Florence / Chef
Amazing
Antiques
Culinary
Eye
Kitchen
Style
Good Money Will
Find
French
Old
Takes
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Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.
Jane Cleland / Author
Antiques
Book
Trying
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I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.
Paul Engle / Poet
Age
Antiques
Bells
Facts
Harness
Horse
Our Lives
Survival
Pictures
Prolonged
Saddle
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Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.
Mark Klett / Photographer
Antiques
Giving
Unnecessary
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When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.
Judith Miller / Journalist
Antiques
Entrances
Mean
Visiting
Bargain
Entrance
Everyone Else
Passed
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I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
Tom Berenger / Television Actor
Notebook
Antiques
Done
Fall
Old Photographs
Research
Riders
Rough
Photographs
Covers
Period
Falling
Notebooks
Time Period
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Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.
Fiona Bruce / Journalist
Adjustment
Antiques
Consistently
Time Me Children
First Job
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
Dan Phillips /
Antiques
Illegal
Ivory
Restoring
Bone
Only Difference
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
Nate Berkus / Interior Designer
Jobs
Antiques
Available
Designer
Website
Catalog
Decorator
Mall
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
Ursula Andress / Actress
Antiques
Furniture
Shops
Trying
Antique
Collect
Frames
Item
Price
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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
Margaret O'brien /
Ancient
Ancient Times
Antiques
Century
Fascinated
Furniture
Authentic
Castle
Stone
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I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
Walton Goggins / Actor
Antiques
Barns
Morocco
Pottery
Barn
Chair
Ticket
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There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.
Jim Rohn / Author
Antiques
Fundamentals
Littles
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
Lara Spencer / Journalist
Antiques
Lottery
Thrill
Joe
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I think the reason I love "Antiques Roadshow" is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
Lara Spencer / Journalist
Antiques
Thinking
Thrill
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My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.
Mark Shand /
Antiques
Collecting
Driving
Filled
Objects
Bit
Spend
Oriental
Travels
Weekends
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Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
Cee Lo Green / Recording Artist
Appreciation
Smile
Antiques
Heirlooms
Timeless
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I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
Monica Potter / Film Actress
Home
Antiques
Chairs
Flower
Silver
Stores
Thrift
Vortex
Want
Flowers
Collect
Pitchers
Shop
Rocking
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My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.
Emily Procter / Actress
Antiques
Bugs
Fascinating
Colors
Vibrant
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The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
Antiques
Depth
Echoes
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If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.
Judith Miller / Journalist
Antiques
Dealer
Return
Accept
Beat
Earlier
Fair
Inclined
Offer
Pack
Piece
Unable
Visit
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I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.
Anthony Warlow / Music Performer
Antiques
Extraordinary
Fragile
Silver
Love History Home
Collect
Georgian
Glass
Lasted
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My own valuation moment: When I started 'Antiques Roadshow,' John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from.
Fiona Bruce / Journalist
Antiques
Engagement
My Own
Sat
Victorian
Started
Own
Been
Ring
Through
Dated
Would
John
Looked
Mine
Moment
Stone
Talked
Visitor
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Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they're both really creative people.
Elena Kampouris /
Antiques
Collecting
Creative People
Painter
Wine
Mom Father Parents
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My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer.
Roisin Murphy / Singer-Songwriter
Antiques
Dealer
Fitting
Furniture
Glamorous
Heat
Ireland
Family Business Mother
Bar
Bosses
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When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way to buy antiques.
Judith Miller / Journalist
Antiques
Best Way
Phone Calls
Television Shows
Calls
Daily
Phone
Guide
Price
Publications
Weekly
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I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
Judith Miller / Journalist
Antiques
Frustrating
Garage
No Idea
Flea
Frustrating Thing
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You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
William Friedkin / Film Director
Antiques
Painting
Want
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In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
Lesley Manville /
Antiques
Buying
Coffee
Court
Gas
Prize
Royal
Silver
Award
Bill
Sisters
Ended
Shop
Supporting
Supporting Role
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I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.
Donald Byrd / Jazz Trumpeter
Antiques
Cat
Jazz
Reserved
Rocks
School
Cats
Jazz Musicians
Overnight
Ridiculed
Successes
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I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.
Pankaj Mishra / Essayist
Antiques
Religious
Superstitions
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For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
David Linley /
Wise
Antiques
Buying
Furniture
Throwing
Collector
Daunting
Foremost
Main Thing
Novice
Prospect
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I'm a walking advertisement for PBS and for the Discovery Channel. All of my DVR settings are pretty much set to record anything that's on the Discovery Channel. I'm a big fan of 'MythBusters' and 'Deadliest Catch,' and I'm constantly watching 'Moyers & Company' and the 'NewsHour' and 'Antiques Roadshow.'
Thomas Sadoski / Film Actor
Antiques
Discovery
Pbs
Settings
Advertisement
Big Fan
Catch
Channel
Deadliest
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My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.
Jason Wu / Fashion Designer
Mom
Antiques
Taste
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I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways.
Abbi Jacobson / Actress
Antiques
Well Done
Houses
Interior
Old House
Philly
Sudden
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