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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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"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."

"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."

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

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

"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."

"Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition."

"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."

"We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research."
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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."

"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."

"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
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