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At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.
David Morse
Theatre
Opportunity
Member
Pretty
Boston
Had
Performed
Became
Years
Repertory
Quickly
Six
Theater
While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.
David Muir
Anchoring
Run
Boston
Massachusetts
Mitt
Governor
Reported
While
Romney
Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.
David Ortiz
You
Natural
People
Sometimes
Matter
Looking
Everyday
Mood
Seeing
Boston
Puts
Feel
Perform
Looking Forward
Same
Just
Place
Them
Special
Forward
Special Place
Why
Play
When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
David Shields
You
Culture
Cities
City
Something
Boston
Feel
New
Surrounded
York
New York
New York City
'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
Dean Devlin
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Boston
New
Another
Chicago
York
New York
Then
Episode
Meant
Meant To Be
Europe
Based
Florida
Leverage
The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Denis Leary
Saying
Best
Comedy
Country
Tried
Atlanta
Boston
True
Opinion
Audiences
Chicago
Just
In My Opinion
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
Denis Leary
Life
Saying
Welcome
People
Club
Way
Out
Boston
Red
Red Sox
Sox
Wanted
Turn
Starting
I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.
Dennis Eckersley
Great
Roof
Fans
City
About
Boston
Through
Never
Had
Excited
Exciting
Like
Traded
Were
Been
Lot
Chicago
Which
Team
Whole
Playoffs
My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
Donnie Yen
Day
You
Every Day
Training
Chi
Young
Every
Teenager
Later
Bruce
Bruce Lee
Boston
Football
Almost
Like
She
Became
Idol
Were
Aunt
Normal
Lee
Famous
Teaching
Baseball
Mum
Lives
Playing
Whenever Boston comes on, I play air guitar.
Duff McKagan
Guitar
Air
Boston
Whenever
Play
I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Government
Ancestors
Boston
Arrested
Expecting
Establish
Created
Fully
Rebelled
Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.
Eliza Dushku
School
Out
High
High School
Boston
Had
Come
Well
Up
Just
Moved
Grew
Public
Public School
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
Eliza Dushku
Politics
Mom
Women
Liberal
Boston
Studies
Like
She
Feminist
Been
Years
Teaching
International
Professor
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
Eliza Dushku
Me
Science
School
Political
Big
Kind
TV
Boston
Never
Go
Political Science
Famous
Movie
Wanted
Movie Star
Star
Found
Professor
When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.
Elizabeth Berg
Work
Wonderful
Go Away
Laundry
Boston
Had
House
Because
Go
Quiet
Office
Refrigerator
Lived
Found
Away
In 1984, Jim Koch used his family's lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest 'craft' brewer in the country. He brews Samuel Adams, a rich lager named after the American revolutionary that comes with the tagline, 'Take pride in your beer.'
Elizabeth Flock
Family
Beer
Pride
Country
Become
Rich
Recipe
Jim
Boston
Take
He
Since
Named
His
Revolutionary
American
Craft
After
Samuel
Which
Your
Used
Company
Largest
Start
In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
Ellsworth Kelly
Saw
Way
Drawing
Eye
Paris
Boston
Developed
Built
Measure
Fascinated
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
Frank Black
Age
Song
Remember
Society
Back
Folk
Guthrie
Boston
Performing
As Far As
Woody
Woody Guthrie
Far
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
Frank McCourt
Me
You
Stay
Boston
Over
Supposed
Were
Heard
Won
Get
Wanted
Wants
Moving
Plane
Body
Your
Your Body
Katie
Away
Right
Right Away
Pulitzer
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen
You
Travel
Yourself
Find
Only
Boston
Returned
Up
Just
The Only Thing
Thing
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
George J. Mitchell
Mother
Father
Met
Gave
Married
Adopted
Boston
He
Maine
Name
Couple
Him
Mitchell
Up
Moved
Childless
Grew
Elderly
Then
Who
Orphanage
In New York, I run into Packers fans who have never lived in Wisconsin, Canadiens fans who have never lived in La Belle Province, Celtics fans who admire Russell and Bird and Pierce but have no trace of a Boston accent.
George Vecsey
Fans
Bird
Run
Admire
Russell
Boston
Never
Wisconsin
New
Pierce
Trace
Accent
La
Province
York
New York
Packers
Who
Lived
Belle
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.
George Vecsey
College
Honors
Athletes
Russell
Boston
Count
Never
Most
America
Personal
Gold
Gold Medal
Titles
Much
Successful
Bill
Meant
Medal
Olympic
Championships
Olympic Gold
Olympic Gold Medal
I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.
George Vecsey
Love
History
Way
Boston
Park
Red
Red Sox
Am
Sox
Fan
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
Godfried Danneels
Natural
Word
College
Sense
Alive
Emerged
Someone
Boston
Disaster
Also
Refer
June
Conference
Survivor
Loved
Crash
Loved Ones
Natural Disaster
Which
Victims
Plane
Plane Crash
Used
Who
Early
Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited in me an excitement that is uniquely American. When I heard rumblings that there was a new Tea Party, I got goose bumps. I love tea, I love parties, I hate taxes; I'm in! It seemed that most of America joined in my excitement!
Greg Fitzsimmons
Love
Me
Hate
First
Party
Tea
Seemed
Boston
Mention
Joined
Excitement
Since
New
Most
Parties
Goose
Got
Heard
Hearing
Bumps
Child
America
American
Any
Story
Taxes
Tea Party
Uniquely
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