I don’t use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. – Ken Burns
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle. – Linda M. Godwin
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear. – John B. S. Haldane
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory. – Kevin J. Anderson
I read more books for research purposes, whether it’s a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. – Jim C. Hines
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for ‘Thunderheart,’ I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession. – John Fusco
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on. – Kareena Kapoor Khan
That’s always the most productive research – research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration. – Jonathan Dee
From the beginning, the series has been story driven – I began with a story idea – but research feeds it. – Jean M. Auel
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research. – Joshua Leonard
My research process doesn’t vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I’m going to approach the story. – Laurie Graham
I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever. – Liane Moriarty
It’s time to permanently lower America’s tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. profits can flow back into America to be invested in new jobs, research and growth. – Kevin Brady
Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular. – Judy Biggert
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people’s writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people’s fiction. Just don’t. – Laurell K. Hamilton
It’s really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don’t know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I’m talking about. – Kelly McCreary
I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, ‘Oh, that was research.’ – Matt Groening
Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn’t be the only way to drive basic research. – John Sulston
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. – Lois Capps
I don’t even have a computer in my office. If I had e-mail, I’d never take the time to read research or absorb information. I want to think about what I’m doing, and that takes time. – John W. Rogers, Jr.
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people’s lives through advocacy and through supporting research – that’s the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it’s certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. – Michael J. Fox
I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the ’60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in. – John Sulston
Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research. – Kenneth C. Griffin
Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated. – Jerome Isaac Friedman
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research. – Jennifer Gilmore
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. – Kenneth L. Pike
