Roger Ebert Quotes

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Roger Ebert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

Topics

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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Anna Quindlen

LifeYourselfParentsYouChoose

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

Anish Kapoor

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What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

Michael Bergin

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I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Stella Young

BirthdayFriendHomeBrokenSeven

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

Tom Stoppard

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They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys. We're always trying to catch up to them.

Rob Reiner

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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Michael Mandelbaum

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Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.

Dom DeLuise

LoveWomanHardUpHerKeep

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson

ArtBestPastPresentLearnMust

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

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We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Antony Sher

DarknessInsideGotUsQuiteLot

I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

Willow Smith

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