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We couldn't predict what would happen with 'Roots.' You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on. David L. Wolper

You Book People Predict Completed Out Would Best-Seller Knew Powerful Because Making Still Were Affect Heat List Going Being Happen While Roots Fortunate Moments Film Hardcover

My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time. David L. Wolper

Time Philosophy Entertain Entertaining Instead Like Documentaries Reverse Did Same Just Same Time Want Inform Roots Away Filmmaker

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. David Novak

Live Although Without Branches Cannot Roots

I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there. Dawn Richard

Back Fats Spiritually Had Feel New Like Got Leave New Orleans Domino After Grandfather Really Roots Katrina Orleans Played

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance. Deborah Moggach

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville

Fly Job Parents Think Our Kids Give Wings Roots Grow

It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer. Diana Ross

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important. Dilshad Vadsaria

Parents Important Give Come Know Knowing Concerned Sure Always Making Been Very Quite Where Them Roots Your Who Credit

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there. Diplo

Family Parents Virginia Carolina Cities Born Beach Area Through Tennessee Like Daytona Mississippi Were South Lot South Carolina Up Ended Moved Different Grew Central Moving Roots Alabama Florida

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles. Don Kardong

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You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up! Donny Osmond

Today Music You Wind Fire Band White Back Everything Earth Draw Those Kind See Parliament Stuff Look Obviously Stevie Stevie Wonder Always Go Hear Up Wonder Artists Ohio Influenced Influences Turn Average Roots Your Radio Players Early

I like the grass roots people the most. Doug Ford

People Grass Like Most Roots Grass Roots

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. Douglas Conant

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Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren't always obvious. Dr. John

Everything Way Ways Wrapped Veins New Like Obvious Around Always Tangled New Orleans Itself Swamp Roots Orleans Interrelated

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it. Ed Royce

Home Justice Financial Decision Congress Everyone Embark Financial Crisis Crisis Could Had Course Afford Forget Get Wanted Regardless Whether Social Us Roots Social Justice Let Us

I want to show how strong I am from my roots. Edward James Olmos

Strong How Am Want Roots Show

Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect. Enda Kenny

Saying Best Family Business Respect Dignity Old Three Country Sense Back About Rather Like Economy Said Go End Than Often Just Being Roots Your Grow Raise

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about. Eric Church

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