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" I've always been very comfortable with me and the people I work with, and my family have always been very plugged into who I am with my personal life. "
Elvis Duran
Life
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" One of our rules for the show, I guess the filter we try to pass everything through, is it's a safe place for women to be. It's not a show for women, because we're basically 50/50 men/women in our audience, but it's a safe place where women win. Women never lose on our show. I think that's very important. It's very unusual. "
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" I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all. "
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" I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion. "
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" Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are. "
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" I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it. "
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" I just always assume no one is listening. "
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" I've never been truly closeted on the air; it's just something I never really made a big deal out of because I never felt like I wanted to push an agenda or push it any further than I felt comfortable with. "
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" I'm still me, no matter if I'm gay or straight or whatever. "
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" As far as radio goes, it really isn't what listeners get; it's how they get it. Social media gives us new and fun ways to stay more directly connected to people who listen to us, and it also helps us make decisions faster. "
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" Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves. "
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" I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the air weekends in Dallas and knew more about major-market radio than the guy teaching. When I told him that, he failed me. "
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