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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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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
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It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
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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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We laugh, that we may not cry.
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
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What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
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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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There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
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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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Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
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To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water.
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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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Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
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Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
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When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.
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Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
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