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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
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[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
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Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
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The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
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And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
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