Troy Carter Quotes

Whenever you go into a new industry, you definitely want to do your homework.

You do as much research as you can for any project.

There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.

I'm one of those people who really likes to do my research.

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

All I'm armed with is research.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

Preparation is everything. You don't like being interviewed by someone who hasn't done their research.

When I do jokes that maybe are seen as social commentary, I research them to the nth degree. I probably do more research than I do actual joke writing. I want to make sure what I'm saying is correct.

Before I take an offer seriously, I do my own research.

I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

Whatever project I sign up for, I try to familiarize myself with the material as much as possible before I start.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

We have to know before we can act.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.