"Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?"

-- Steve Lohr

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“Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.”

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
“After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
“It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.”
“Men to whom God is dead worship one another.”
“Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.”
“True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.”
“After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.”

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