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Shelley Berman

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."

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Donna Grant

"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."

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Donna Grant

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."

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Donna Grant

"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."

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Donna Grant

"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."

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Donna Grant

"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."

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Shelley Berman
"My whole act is confession."

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Shelley Berman
"I will always love to perform standup comedy."

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Shelley Berman
"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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Shelley Berman
"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."

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Shelley Berman
"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."

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Shelley Berman
"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."

Chicago

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Shelley Berman
"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."

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Shelley Berman
"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."

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Shelley Berman
"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."

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Shelley Berman
"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."

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