I’m not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I’m not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.
I’d get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.
We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used to go round my friends houses on a Sunday to get their Sunday dinner because my mum couldn’t cook either so I used to love going round my mates and say: ‘Can you ask your Mum if I can come in for Sunday dinner?’
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That’s pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.
I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages.
There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.
I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be ‘alright’, to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.
Having Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House would be a nightmare.
I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
I like to save my money for buying houses.
When I’m the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I’m in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.
I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere – the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.
It’s not as if I’ve never been awkward myself. I’m a big gamer, so I’ve had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people’s houses.
In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.
Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
There is no way in the world that a vacuum cleaner will ever be obsolete – they use them for swimming pools, they use them for houses, they use them for industrial purposes. They’re fantastic things.
There is a strong need for constructing low income houses in the province, for which the Punjab government has planned a programme of providing houses to low income strata.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That’s an idea that I keep dealing with.
I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.
