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" My voice was awkward. I had a deep Texan accent. "
Elvis Duran
Accent
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Texan
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" The magic to our show and, I think, any successful show, be it on the radio or TV, is every person being true to themselves. "
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" Radio in my beginning days was going into a room for four hours, playing a bunch of music, and screaming about the artists... radio now has come out of the radio, on to the net, and on to video and on stages; it's a multiplatform thing. It's nothing I expected ever to see. "
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" I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions. "
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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. "
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" I really feel that leading by example is the best way for people to see who you are and let them connect with you. "
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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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" 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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" Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where it's going - but it was really also a pretty easy job. "
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" I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find. "
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" I don't think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events. "
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" Traditional radio is not going to die; it's going to evolve. "
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" I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves. "
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" I just always assume no one is listening. "
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" I think it's a wonderful thing, turning 50. I think everyone should do it at least once. "
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" I have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it's Howard Stern, of course. "
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" I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good. "
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" I really think there are many great organizations out there getting the word out about LGBT youth and bullying, but GLAAD has this way of making sure the stories about gay people are sent out and heard and not covered up, and I like that. "
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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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" Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention. "
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