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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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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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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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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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.