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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
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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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How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.
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I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
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Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
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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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A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.
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We must try to contribute joy to the world.
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