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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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Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.
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Sometimes, it's all about the casting.
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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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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
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If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
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The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.
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I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.
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The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.
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The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
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When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.
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Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
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If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.
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I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?
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I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
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We are the playthings of the gods.
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What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
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We laugh, that we may not cry.
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Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.
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