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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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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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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
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Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
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Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.
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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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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
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If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
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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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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
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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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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
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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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It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.
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Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
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What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.
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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
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Socrates told us, the unexamined life is not worth living. I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
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