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Michael Ondaatje

"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."

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"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."

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"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."

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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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"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 don't research anything."

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"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
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