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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
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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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Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
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And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
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People send me e-mails saying, You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics. Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
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Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
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In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
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Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, Snow White and the Huntsman is a considerable experience.
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My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
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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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If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
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A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
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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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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
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If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
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