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Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

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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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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
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It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
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I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
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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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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
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The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.
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Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
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