I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.
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Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.
Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.
You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
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