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Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.
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I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
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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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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
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