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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Roger Ebert

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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
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While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.
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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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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
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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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We must try to contribute joy to the world.
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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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Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.
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I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.
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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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My newspaper job … is my identity.
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If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.
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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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One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
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Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.
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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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