Roger Ebert Quotes

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• Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters,…
• 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…
• Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.
• Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
• In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
• I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all…
• I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the…
• We spend too much time hiding illness.
• One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
• Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley...…
• A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.
• I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the…
• Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
• Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all…
• Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
• Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest…
• Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of…
• Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
• We must try to contribute joy to the world. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
• Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

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