William Fitzgerald Harper (William Jackson Harper) Quotes

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

William Fitzgerald Harper

• House
• Space
• Walls
• Syndrome

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• I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

  

  William Fitzgerald Harper
  • House
  • Space
  • Walls