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Roger Ebert Quotes

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love Experience Loss More Because

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.

John Lanchester

Age Amazing Early Talk Ability Knew

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Today Decision People Pressure Doing

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

You Circumstances Here Cannot Just

I've always been tenacious.

Always Been Tenacious

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Good Wedding Doing You Know Why

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Comedy Way Mess Just Even Approach

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Generosity Believe Motivation Crisis

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

Constance Baker Motley

Lawyer Bad Race United United States

My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.

Parents Potential Know Divine Aware

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

Memories Speak Real Always Get Only

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

Work Think Others Up Industry Left

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Darkness Language Feel You Cinema

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