HeadWay English course/Intermediate - Collections_2 текст песни

- First of all, a little bit about you. Are you originally from New York City?

- I'm from Wilmington, Dalaware, but I've been living in New York a long time, 36 years. I came to New York to work in the fashion industry. I still work in the world of fashion. I love it.

- So, how long have you been collecting dolls?

- Hmm… it must be about 25 years. Yeah, 25 years.

- So what led you to having such a love of dolls. Have you always loved them?

- Well, no, I didn't play with dolls much when I was a girl, but uh these aren't children's dolls that I collect.

- No?

- No, they're really works of art. When you say the word “doll” people think of a toy for little girls, but these are not. When I opened my business, Dolls-at-Home, 2 years ago, that was the message I wanted to get across to all art lovers – that dolls are another art form.

- I can see that these are not dolls for little girls. Some of them are really quite amazing. How many dolls do you have in your collection?

- Oh, I would say – um I think maybe three hundred

- Wow! And where are they all?

- Well, I had to buy a new apartment …

- You bought an apartment for the dolls?!

- Yeah, I really did. My son, he's 33 now, he went off to college and I filled his room with dolls in 2 minutes so I realized that I needed a different apartment. I wanted to show off my dolls.

- So, you have what, you maybe 4 or 5 rooms, all with dolls …

- Actually there are dolls in every room, even the bathroom and the kitchen.

- I was going to ask, is there one room where you don't allow dolls.

- No! Oh no, they're part of my life, I mean sometimes when people visit there's nowhere to sit. It's a problem.

- So, what about keeping them clean? Dusting them?

- Erm, yeah, that's problem, too. New York is dirty. Erm, I suppose they should be under glass but I don't want them under glass, I want to enjoy them. I dust them occasionally.

- Well, they look immaculate.

- Thanks.

- That's a very unusual doll. It's in valuable?

- No, not really. But that doll over there … It has an elephant mask. That's my favourite.

- Really?

- You see the mask goes up and it's a little boy's face and it goes down and it's an elephant's face. It's made by one of the best doll makers in the US, Akira Blount.

- And how do you find your dolls?

- I travel all over. I go to doll shows, and now that I have a website and I've started my own business, doll artist find my. As I said, it's been going in for 2 years now, and I have a mailing list of nine hundred people.

- Wow! What does your son think off all this?

- You know, he thinks I'm sort of … crazy. He loves this apartment but he can't understand

- Why you fill it with dolls!

- Yeah, but two weeks ago he came to one of my dolls shows, it was his first time, and I think he was impressed. Yeah, I think so.

- So, do you think you'll ever stop collecting them?

- No, there's always room for another doll. If you're a real collector you always find room.

- I'm sure you're right. Well, that's great Andrea. Thank you very much.