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In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.
As a kid I used to love going to open houses and doing DIY projects with my parents and sister around our home.
When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
Our law enforcement, these are people that leave their houses and may not come back home at the end of the night.
Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
The houses in Mustique are styled with incredible decor. I vacationed there as a kid and have the fondest memories.
People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
I try to work on houses not cars. If I was as good at working on cars as I was on houses maybe I would. But I'm not.
Here in L.A., people really open their houses in an easy way, nothing too complicated. You can go in your flip-flops.
There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It's something I've done with my children since they were born.
Craven Cottage is a great stadium, really traditional, going through the rows of houses until a stadium suddenly appears.
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.
I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.
I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.
My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.
When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!
It's got to be both houses and the people coming together in unanimous decision when you start messing with the Constitution.
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
We have a very robust online business, but convincing luxury houses to join us on the website has involved a lot of groveling.
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where the heart is.
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.
My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.