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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius. Roger Ebert

You Creative People Genius Sometimes Made Films Unknown Miraculous Faces Never Come Heard Being Creative Genius

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. Roger Ebert

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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated. Roger Ebert

Life Experience People Typical Folks Life Experience About Having Casually Had Part Put Talk Surgery Tires Many Now

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know. Roger Ebert

Vampires Kinky Know

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. Roger Ebert

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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. Roger Ebert

You Sense Something True Makes Act

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter. Roger Ebert

People Matter Some People Some Because How Bullied Different Why

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes

Passion Itself Wants Public Image

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity. Terry Eagleton

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In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are. Terry Teachout

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You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. Timothy White

You Complacency Kind Redesign Because Familiarity Familiarity Breeds Breeds Need

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual. Tony Parsons

You Individual Like Look Make Tattoo

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin. Tony Parsons

You World Better Skin Swimming Pants Those Would Magazine Guy Only Sees David Feel Like Look Without Beckham How How Much Cover His Dumb Person Modelling Handsome Oh Much Your Who Ink Thinks

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. Van Wyck Brooks

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. Walter Benjamin

Love Hope Way Only Knowing Without Person To Love Them

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