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Roger Ebert Quotes

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Roger Ebert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Care Done Pleasure See Up

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

Jim Sturgess

World You Filmmaking Independent

If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It's going to be like a dream come true.

Jerry Rice

Thank You You Dream Fame Say True

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.

Jen Lancaster

Literature Know Digital Ruin Buying

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Meister Eckhart

Life God Better Person Out Anything

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Time Chance Trying Movies Out Check

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics People American Person

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper

Society Find Human Scary Existence

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

Robin Hobb

Home Writing World Literature Room

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

Jon Landau

Done More Knowing She Permanent

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

Colin Firth

Work Myself Job People Me Sometimes

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you.

Colin Firth

You Talk Out Myth Even Approach

It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.

Brian Fallon

Me Three Always Big Bob Dylan Bob