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"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."
"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Shelley Berman
"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."
"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."
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