Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Roger Ebert

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It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

Roger Ebert

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No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Roger Ebert

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Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles.

Roger Ebert


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Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?

That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection!

Roger Ebert

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My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven’t read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may — need is the word I use — to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill’s history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed.

Roger Ebert


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What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Roger Ebert

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(1) the Muse visits during, not before, the act of composition, and (2) the writer takes dictation from that place in his mind that knows what he should write next.
-from a review by Roger Ebert of film "Starting Out In the Evening" (2007).
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Roger Ebert


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Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

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The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

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