"I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire."
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"God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!"
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"A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough."
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"If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp."
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"The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself."
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"I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself"
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"A novel is a machine for generating interpretations."
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"Every opinion reacts on him who utters it."
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"Example is always more efficacious than precept."
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"The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances."
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"We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time."
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"Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components."
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"It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible."
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"The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice."
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"Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000."
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"The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics."
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"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
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"Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic"
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"All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence."
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"No one-liner can ever be optimal."
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