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Daily Inspiration Quote by Ursula Andress

"If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses"

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There is a delicious, offhand candor to Ursula Andress admitting that when she runs out of space, she simply outsources the problem to warehouses. Coming from the actress whose image in Dr. No helped define mid-century screen glamour, the line reads like a tiny autobiography of celebrity logistics: desire, acquisition, and the quiet infrastructure required to keep the fantasy looking effortless.

The intent feels practical on its face, almost domestic: a storage solution, said without apology. That no-apology tone is the subtext. Warehouses aren’t closets; they’re industrial-scale extensions of the self. Andress frames abundance not as indulgence but as a matter of workflow. The cultural trick here is how the sentence normalizes excess through plain language. “An item” could be anything - wardrobe, memorabilia, art, the props of a life lived in public - but the vagueness is strategic. It keeps the speaker from sounding precious about possessions while still signaling that there are enough of them to require a system.

Context matters: Andress rose in an era when actresses were packaged as icons, their bodies and style treated as assets. Warehousing becomes a metaphor for that era’s consumer dream, upgraded to the level of a brand: you don’t declutter, you expand. It also hints at the emotional economics of fame. When every object can be a souvenir, evidence, or investment, getting rid of things might feel like losing chapters. So you don’t throw your life away; you store it, safely, indefinitely.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Andress, Ursula. (2026, January 15). If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-dont-have-room-for-an-item-i-put-it-in-63879/

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Andress, Ursula. "If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-dont-have-room-for-an-item-i-put-it-in-63879/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-dont-have-room-for-an-item-i-put-it-in-63879/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress (born March 19, 1936) is a Actress from Switzerland.

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