#loo

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#billy wilder #bound #contained #could #create

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#entirely #even #glad #gloom #heart

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#asking #because #grow #grow up #ideas

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#balloons #big #blow #could #countries

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#because #bring #damn #few #few people

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? ↗

— Colin Powell

#child #could #forward #great #left

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. ↗

— Colin Powell

#appoint #before #bring #candidates #court

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. ↗

— Colin Powell

#competitor #look #pure #states #united

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf