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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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"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."

"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."

"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!"

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

"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."

"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."
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"Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities."


"I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie."


"In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time."


"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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