What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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Related The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become mult... ELON MUSK People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the prese... COLIN QUINN Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It... DANIEL GOLDSTEIN I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - ... ALAN ARKIN That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no... ZAKK WYLDE Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just th... JUNOT DIAZ There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how... OCTAVIA SPENCER It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal... AIDAN GILLEN Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful... DAVE MATTHEWS And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. T... TRISH STRATUS I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's j... CAM 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut... MARTIN VILLENEUVE I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I... KELLY MASTERSON I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everyt... J. G. BALLARD 'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking for... STEVE AOKI The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's ... DAVID BOWIE You either end up on a good, fun show that's successful, or you have that question mark in your ... LUCY GRIFFITHS I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or blac... RUTINA WESLEY I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pa... MOSHE SAFDIE Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterb... JUNIOR SEAU You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ... MATT ROBINSON What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the u... JOE ROGAN There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... MICHAEL MORPURGO I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's whi... BIG BOI Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's ca... BIL KEANE I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. ... YEHUDA AMICHAI I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future. DANA BRUNETTI Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea... TED WILLIAMS I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appeali... JACK NICHOLSON In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot ... CARL PALADINO White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from... ED MARKEY It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit o... NICKI MINAJ There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No... RIZ AHMED There's definitely been moments in my life, even recently, where I've taken chances or spoke... TIG NOTARO Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the w... VAL KILMER If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t... BERNARD WILLIAMS I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? KARL PILKINGTON The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things... S. JAY OLSHANSKY If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which ... SETH GODIN With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, ... JIM DRAIN There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful p... AVA DUVERNAY There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level ... PETER JACKSON Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that m... LISA GARDNER Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happ... CANELO ALVAREZ Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's a... MARTIN REES The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that.... MATT MULLENWEG It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don... FRANCES CONROY It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the... BILL SIENKIEWICZ What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging a... JOSS WHEDON I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se... HAROLD PRINCE There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in... CRISTIANO RONALDO There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ... JOSS WHEDON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight m... CHRISTOPHER GUEST Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You c... DAVID MAMET If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, &... DAVID GERROLD When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the... JEWELL PARKER RHODES I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun... IAN SOMERHALDER Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession,... REGINALD VELJOHNSON Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corn... JAMES BROLIN From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens... STEVE BALLMER The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi... AUNJANUE ELLIS My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only ... ERIC FELLNER I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason to bullying... it's not even the bully'... DOVE CAMERON I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just f... WESLEY SCHULTZ The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the f... WILLIAM HAGUE There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world... JOHNNY DEPP The future is out of my hands; it is in God's. RAFAEL DOS ANJOS The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's g... SAM UNDERWOOD I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say... JAMES KNOWLES III The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That... MADCHEN AMICK There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either.... FRANK PERETTI There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or t... PADDY CONSIDINE The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. Th... DMX I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi... TONY KUSHNER For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two... REBECCA SOLNIT Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile co... JOAN LUNDEN Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There ... FRANCOIS-HENRI PINAULT Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument... NINA SIMONE Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesti... HOLLY HUNTER It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan... ZAKK WYLDE Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it transl... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in th... PAUL RUDD It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what li... ANTONY BEEVOR Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down. ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden... ERLAND JOSEPHSON Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all.... JOHN LYDON I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are inte... COLIN FIRTH Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It'... WALE This idea of 'New Collar' says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology... GINNI ROMETTY 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY What's so interesting about 'Point Break' to me is that it's a study of testosterone... JOHN C. MCGINLEY Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? Th... CRAIG ROBINSON
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BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr... PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons... BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a... MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ... PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv... TERRY BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ... TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me... MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d... PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS