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Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

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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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We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
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Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. 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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A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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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 I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
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It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
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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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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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I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.
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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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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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Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
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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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[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
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The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.
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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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