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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
Paranoid
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When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend.
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Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
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Sometimes, it's all about the casting.
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How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
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Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
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A film is a terrible thing to waste.
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Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
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Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.
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If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.
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We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
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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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The very fact of snow is such an amazement.
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
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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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It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.
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Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.
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