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Good Quotes by Roger Ebert
- You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the…
- Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
- Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not…
- It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
- Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
- I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love…
- In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the…
- 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…
- No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
- I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
- My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
- All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to…
- The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman…
- When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates…
- Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you…
- In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
- An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find…
- At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is…
- Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is,…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle