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"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."
First
"And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure."
Failure
"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago."
Chicago
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
Actor
"Funny is when you're serious."
Funny
"I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me."
Letters
"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."
Kids
"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff."
Funny
"And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on."
Eating
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
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"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
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