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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
Presenter
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
Life
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Accepted
Challenges
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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
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I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
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