"We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's……" — Roger Ebert
"We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA."
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269 Quotes by Roger Ebert
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Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not…
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional…
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Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter…
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I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
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Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about…
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
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To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
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Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank…
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More Coded Quotes
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and…
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it…
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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their…
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Culture is coded wisdom
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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist…
— Laura Mulvey
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With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.
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The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven…
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All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great.…
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First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog…
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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
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