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Roger Ebert Quotes

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone Great Doing Moments Nothing

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

Myself Voice Better Over Years Lot

I do not donate to any political party.

Political Party Political Party Any

I remember liking the MTV awards when I was a kid.

Remember Awards Kid Liking MTV

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

Home Battle You Become Office Going

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear!

Fear Want Greatest Even Though

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

Journey Destination Writing Picture

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Life Joy Mind Me Frustration You

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Conflict Create Drama Try Always

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Love Criticism Without To Love

My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

Christina Baker Kline

Mother Women Brilliant She Dynamic

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Technology Job Government Problems

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

Brunello Cucinelli

Great Perspective Me Design Always

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