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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."
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"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago."
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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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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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"Funny is when you're serious."
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
"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."
First
"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
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
Actor
"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago."
Chicago
"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 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
"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
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