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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
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"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."
"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
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