When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding. – Brandon Sanderson
Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was. – Anthony Fauci
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. – Aubrey de Grey
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists. – Aubrey de Grey
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. – Alan Autry
Style has become a crucial differentiating factor for most actors in the industry. I generally choose my look based on the character I essay. I research a lot on the Internet and pick something that would suit my face. – Akkineni Nagarjuna
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances. – Andy Weir
I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I’ll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a beat outline. And then I’ll add little notes and dialogue ideas, and I’ll just create a 20-page document. – Cary Fukunaga
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
I think sometimes I’m more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you’re always hurrying. And sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m here and there. – Bai Ling
The girls in ‘Downton Abbey’ do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you’re living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it. – Anastasia Griffith
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi. – Alan Parsons
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don’t get past the third paragraph you’ve wasted your energy and valuable ink. – Carl Hiaasen
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties’ salaries to fund research. – Clayton M. Christensen
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing. – Ashwin Sanghi
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents… I try to get inside my stories. – Ben Mezrich
The ‘Friday sessions’ refer to something that you’re not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird – even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries. – Andre Geim
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine. – Arthur Kornberg
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. – Alan Dean Foster
One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn’t sell, it didn’t make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not. – Bernard Marcus
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses. – Colleen Atwood
I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you’re in wardrobe, and then you’re just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you’re doing, and it’s this great back and forth. Because you’ve done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it. – Bill Hader
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story. – Alan Garner
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. – Abraham Robinson
Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself! – Alan Lewis
I can’t write a book like ‘Lamb’ or ‘Fool’ every year. It just takes too much research and craft. – Christopher Moore
I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. – Bella Freud
There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it’s pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. – Bruce Sterling