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Sister Parish

Sister Parish Biography

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Sister Parish, a mysterious figure born on July 15, 1910, and passed away in 1994. Her profession and category are currently unknown.

Sister Parish, a mysterious figure born on July 15, 1910, and passed away in 1994. Her profession and category are currently unknown.

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“You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.”

Has Beens House Achieve Down And

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“Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Two Ideas Home Able Purpose House Parent Minutes Roots Sells Investment Chosen Principal Furniture

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“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”

Members Our Family Sentimental Aunt Hideous Parish

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“Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.”

Should Reason Rooms Behinds Very Good Attractive Decorating

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“It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.”

Easy Bears Husband Married Crosses Confusion My Husband Being Married Sister Awkwardness Crosses To Bear

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“I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.”

Thinking Firsts House Memories Rooms Forever Design Vivid Deep Down Interior Design

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“...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Trying Firsts Persons Ideas Helping Asks Memories Rooms Design Reactions Ask Me Interior Design

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“Rooms should be timeless.”

Should Rooms Design Timeless Interior Design

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“Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.”

Past Beautiful Ability Design Innovation Lasting Interior Design

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“It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.”

Ifs Should Looks Stills Eye Care Turns Rooms Achieve Style Particular Color Instinct Warm Scales Hopeless Trends Rulers Timeless Imaginative Living Room

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About the Author

Born: July 15, 1910
Died: 1994
Known for: Author
Quotes: 10

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