Research Quotes - page 9

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. (Chris Cleave)
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange. View quote
Liane Moriarty
Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
In my clinical practice, the one diagnosis I always dreaded giving was Alzheimer's. Billions have been spent on research, but there's still neither a cure nor an effective treatment. View quote
Michael Greger
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. View quote
Michael Caine
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. View quote
James Rollins
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. View quote
Lynn Abbey
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. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. (Kevin J. Anderson)
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. View quote
Vera Wang
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. View quote
John Galliano
I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back. View quote
David Haye
I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous. View quote
Tim Curry
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have. View quote
Conan O'Brien
If you think research is expensive, try disease. View quote
Mary Lasker
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. View quote
Nathan Deal
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs. View quote
Nathan Deal
In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind. View quote
Nathan Deal
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. (Mike Pence)
We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research. View quote
Mike Pence
I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon. View quote
Ronda Rousey
I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk. View quote
Andrew Scott
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else. View quote
Daryl Hannah