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That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
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Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
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Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.
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It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.
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One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
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It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
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When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.
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It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
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The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'
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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.
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I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
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Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.
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Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.
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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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