Amy Poehler Quotes

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

I'm a Midwesterner.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.