I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.
I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.
