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• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

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  Religious, War, Paris

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• All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

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  People, Way, Reviews

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should have better manners, and need only a nudge. In high school, I was addressed for the first time in my life as "Mister Ebert" by Stanley Hynes, an English teacher, and his formality transformed his classroom into a place where a certain courtliness prevailed.

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  Life, Teacher, School

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• Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

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  Real, Potato Chips, Stuff

  Roger Ebert (2002). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003”, p.473, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

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  Eye, Cutting, Long

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

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  Hero, Needs, Pathetic

  Roger Ebert @ebertchicago, twitter.com. August 30, 2012.

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• What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

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  Food, Loss, Track

  "Life Itself". Documentary, January 19, 2014.

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• If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

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  Occupation, Enough, Ifs

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.306, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.

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  Stars, Character, Adventure

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• I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

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  Smart, People, Together

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• I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

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  Long, Boring, Praise

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.441, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

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  Sex, Book, Men

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.592, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

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  People, Doe, Fame

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.207, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.

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  Ice, Hot, Would Be

  Roger Ebert (2003). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004”, p.110, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

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  Needs, Categories, Locked

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.608, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

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  Art, Art Is, Good Art

  Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.456, Crown Archetype

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• Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

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  Law, Giving, Asking

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.

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  Growing Up, Age, Three

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• There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

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  Depressing, Couple, Disappointment

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• There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

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  Sight, Comedian, Knows

  Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.762, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

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  Dna, Helping, Protagonists

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• It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

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  Reading, Character, Feelings

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• I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

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  Hard Times, Skills, Directors

  Roger Ebert's review of "Wolf Creek", www.rogerebert.com. December 22, 2005.

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• Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.

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  Stars, Firsts, Pixar

  Roger Ebert @ebertchicago, twitter.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store.

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  Hero, Thinking, Clerks

  Roger Ebert (1996). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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