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"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
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"There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything."
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"I become kind of obsessive about research."
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"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."
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"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."
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"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."
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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
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"When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid."
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"Enough research will tend to support your conclusions."
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"It was the most romantic plane ever made."
Aviation
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"Culture clash is terrific drama."
Cultural
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
Research
"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years."
Love
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
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