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Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High. Stephen A. Smith

News Daily Long Before Thomas High Vocational Student New Days Edison York ESPN New York Technical Daily News Philadelphia

When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns. Stephen A. Smith

Sports First Nine Backup Joe Promoted Temple General Writer Beats Columnist Columns Years Ultimately Times NBA Assignment Philadelphia

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system. Steve Buscemi

You Animal Prison Think System Could Factory Had Mostly Because Shoot Anywhere Shot Interiors Cooperation Philadelphia

Philadelphia is a great market for local TV news. Both KYW and Channel 10 have had good runs. But Channel 6 doesn't give you a reason to turn the channel. I have such profound respect for Jim Gardner. He is Philadelphia television news. Steve Capus

When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time. Tamron Hall

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When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. Tom Glazer

Sad Depression Car Job Lost Abandoned Jobs Had Since Got Been Up Very Owners Payments Garage Keep Night Philadelphia

I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do. W. C. Fields

Will Before See Paris Like Die Philadelphia

St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud. W. E. B. Du Bois

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I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15. John Gallagher, Jr.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree. Bill Cosby

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I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia. Black Thought

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