Roger Ebert Quotes

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to…
• It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one…
• Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.
• When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience;…
• I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
• One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the…
• The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if…
• I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
• Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.
• Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,
• Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
• I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
• Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
• Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection…
• My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of…
• Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
• Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
• 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…
• A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the…
• [Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be…

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