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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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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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Boredom
Death
Nothing
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Impending

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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
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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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Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.
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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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It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
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