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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
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
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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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Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
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What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
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And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
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We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
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Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.
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People send me e-mails saying, You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics. Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.
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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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From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.
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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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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
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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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The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
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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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