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Roger Ebert
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"If a movie isn’t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Teen
"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Movies
"The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Amazing
"Well, you know what, I’m 60 years old, and I’ve been interested in politics since I was on my daddy’s knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Politics
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Movies
"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"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
Topic(s):
Movies
"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
Topic(s):
Funny
"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
Topic(s):
Movies
"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."
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Roger Ebert
Topic(s):
Movies
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