Deanna Dunagan Quotes
New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.
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I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.
