#chicago

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better. ↗

— Dan Savage

#chicago #could #eyes #fringe #gay

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#barcelona #berlin #chicago #coffee #constantly

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#food #medicine #pain #separation #some

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#chicago #doing #family #felt #financial

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#college #company #directing #doing #i

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#america #chicago #commissioned #i #immigrant

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know? ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#being #chicago #cold #cranky #day

Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. “Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #lake #law-school

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#cause #chicago #conservative #fact #i

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#warren-ellis #writing #writers-on-writing