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Sara Sheridan

"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

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"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

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"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

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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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"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

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"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."

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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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"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."

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"Enough research will tend to support your conclusions."

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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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"I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it."

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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."
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"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
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"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."
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"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
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"I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good."
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
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"Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have."
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"The library is a symbol of freedom."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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