- Nov 07, 2020
Research Quotes
On research, discovery, and what the data shows.
One quote defines research almost as improvisation - doing something without knowing exactly what you're doing - while others cite concrete findings on how teacher quality predicts a student's long-term outcomes. Doing picks up that first thread.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research in this country is going down.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might not be here if it wasn't for the research and the technology that March of Dimes provided for my family and me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.
- Counterparts
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- Nov 07, 2020
We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.
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- Nov 07, 2020