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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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"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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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

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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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"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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"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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"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."

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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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"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."

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"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."

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