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Roger Ebert | movies

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.

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Roger Ebert | movies

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

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Roger Ebert | movies

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

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Roger Ebert | movies

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

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Roger Ebert | intelligence

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

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Roger Ebert | good

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

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Roger Ebert | funny

It’s funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that’s causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it’s in the Bush Administration.

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Roger Ebert | freedom

I begin to feel like most Americans don’t understand the First Amendment, don’t understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don’t understand that it’s the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

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Roger Ebert | experience

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.

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Roger Ebert | change

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.

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