“It seems like 'Hollywood' to you because you've never served. What I’ve done in my life, you see in the movies.”

—  Michael Grimm

To Michael Allegretti, Inside City Hall, NY1, (3 September 2010). http://www.wnyc.org/story/103786-mr-incredible-goes-washington-nycs-michael-grimm/
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