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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

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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
Something
Sense
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True

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Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.
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Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.
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It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.
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Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.
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Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
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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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A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
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It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.
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When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.
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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
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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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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
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Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
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Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
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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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