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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
Mort Walker
"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
Ken Follett
"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
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"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."
Iris Chang
"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."
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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Raymond Chandler
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Alan Dundes
"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
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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."
Oliver Stone
"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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"However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students."
Aaron Klug
"However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students."
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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
Michael Ondaatje
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
Walter Gilbert
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
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"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."
Jackie Collins
"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."
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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."
Orville Wright
"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 refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep."
Lois Capps
"The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep."
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"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
Laura Hillenbrand
"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
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"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology."
Stanley Smith Stevens
"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology."
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"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
Harvey Pekar
"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
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"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."
Robert Sternberg
"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."
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"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
Vernor Vinge
"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
Vincent Bugliosi
"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
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"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
Daniel Nathans
"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
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"But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research."
Amar Bose
"But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research."
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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."
Ralph Fiennes
"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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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
Sunday Adelaja
"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
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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."
Steven Magee
"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."
Steven Magee
"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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"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."
Steven Magee
"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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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
Sara Sheridan
"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
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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."
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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