“Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.” NeedsCharacterAbleReaderRootsFlawedMain CharactersLikeable Author:Janet Evanovich
“Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.” WritingTryingBookActingRoots Author:Rebecca Miller
“Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.” NeedsPoliticalSocialConflictRootsGreedTension Author:Satish Kumar
“Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.” HeartStoriesTodayAbleChallengesAudienceLaughingCryEmotionalHeroRootsVisualsSeatsToysTwistsDeep Down Author:Gabriel Campisi
“Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?” MeanStoriesFilmSongWatchesNiceTvsRootsMurderGood StoryBallads Author:Valerie June
“I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.” KnowsWayLooksMeanCertainSongMusicianRootsGet UpOld YouOveralls Author:Valerie June
“Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.” KnowsWorldWarSeemsAmericaBitsInterestDealsStudentsDrawsRootsHistoricalPostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Mohammad Marandi
“The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!” WorldWrittenTraditionRootsIraqIronyClassicSophisticatedRecipesCuisineCrossroadsPersianMintMint Juleps Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.” TryingLooksLongDoeProblemBigsCausesTermCan DoRealizingViewsRootsStrategyLong TermPhilanthropyBig ProblemsRoot Cause Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
“Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.” ImportantFilmRootsDecidedFeaturesPolishPoland Author:Malgorzata Szumowska
“The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.” SelfMaterialsDrugRootsAddictionPossessionMaterial PossessionsSearching For Happiness Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.” WayHas BeensPoliticalWrittenRootsRageAlienation Author:Kate Zambreno
“Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.” HelpingEnergyWishRootsEnthusiasmGeekUnendingKung FuPandasKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.” UsedLanguageFeltBornIdentityNeededSummerRootsCrisisRaisedConnectedFranceIdentity CrisisBorn And RaisedTunisia Author:eL Seed
“I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.” KnowsFeelsWritingMadeFactsUsedCultureReadingSpeakLanguageStepsRootsFunny ThingsArtworkDialectReading WritingCalligraphy Author:eL Seed
“I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.” NeedsTryingLanguageBreakIdentityRootsTranslateStereotypeTopicsTranslationsWorking A LotArabic Language Author:eL Seed
“I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.” WantLooksBeautifulNaturalRootsBeautiful ThingsNatural Things Author:Alana Haim
“There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRootsInstrumentsSlaveChaptersPrimitiveBanjos Author:Bela Fleck
“I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.” WellsIdeasUseInterestingColorRootsDrawingBeerDullComplimentInkInteresting IdeasRoot Beer Author:Marcel Dzama
“[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.” WellsRootsAddBritishVersionsCooksClassicDishesPieJerkShepherdsJamaicans Author:Naomie Harris
“In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.” IfsCoursesActorsInvolvedRootsTwentiesBlameFollowingSingersBranchesRemarkable Author:Terrence Howard
“Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.” IfsWritingImportantSelfDoneSeemsAblePleasureMediaNewsRootsDecidedAskingMirrorsEstablishmentSeptemberGood NewsSupportiveAntidoteSeptember 11Old Self Author:John Pilger
“Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've yet had the opportunity to tap on camera. Lab Rats was a wonderful opportunity for me to just go be a goofy buffoon, which I love. It was exhilarating to listen to all the funny lines the writers would come up with on the spot and then get to play them immediately.” Has BeensPlayOpportunityLinesGreaterWonderfulReturnKingsRootsCamerasDepthCome UpSpotsRangeRatsLabsExhilaratingGoofyOlympusBuffoons Author:Graham Shiels
“I would ask everyone to remember, in any situation we are experiencing, that we can come from a place of fear or love. I would say, however uncomfortable it may be sometimes to get to that root, to please take that extra time and courage to come from a place of love.” MaySometimesRememberAsksSituationPleaseRootsUncomfortableExtrasExtra Time Author:Dash Mihok
“My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.” InterestingLevelsStageRootsIncome Author:Morgan Freeman
“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.” CountryDreamTalkingRightsMovementKingsPeriodsMessagesRootsNotionCivil RightsGrassAddressesDivisionIntegrationLutherCivil Rights MovementExaggerationDetroit Author:David Maraniss
“The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.” NeedsCountryRealityActionOrderCommunityRootsViolentPracticalsCooperationExtremismMuslim CommunityHomegrown Author:Marco Rubio
“I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.” DoneProgressRootsProgressiveThings Done Author:Hillary Clinton
“I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films ['Race' and 'Selma'] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die.” TwoImportantStoriesKidsFilmDiesOpportunityRealizingForgetGenerationsRootsImportanceEducatedEducateAncestorRetelling Author:Stephan James
“I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.” IfsWayWantBelieveWarI BelieveCausesAnswersPovertyRootsCrisisEnvironmentalHungerGlobal WarmingGenocideUsualSymptomsRoot CauseEnvironmental CrisisHunger Poverty Author:Tom Shadyac
“If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.” IfsKnowsShowsTraditionRootsRelateFinding YourselfChefGrandparentMexicanKnow Yourself Author:Ana Claudia Talancon
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” MenAtheismMissingRootsStatisticsSuperstitionsObservingSuperstitiousIrrationality Author:Francis Bacon
“With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album.” FeelsTryingWantedSongFunStuffPerfectStepsBoysRocksRootsAlbumsBoxesTitlesNew ThingsSolo Author:Nick Carter
“My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).” HumansSocialInterestPsychologyTaughtBrotherBehaviorApproachRootsSuicideCommittedPsychologicalLimitationMy BrotherHuman BehaviorAndrewPsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.” MeanShowsCausesStudyRootsClaimsConventionalTwinsPsychiatrySchizophreniaPsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.” EnoughCareWonderRootsDepth Author:Aeriel Miranda
“There isn't a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.” NeedsWellsCausesGoalClearRootsOrganizationSightIndependentTerrorismCampaignsTerroristDefinedPreciseBin LadenSurveysOsama Bin LadenSpunRoot CauseClear Goals Author:Edward Said
“They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.” WorldLongCausesInterestMiddleSecurityEssentialsAreasRootsAffairTerrorOilEastIslamicMiddle EastInvolvementArab WorldDialecticsRoot Cause Author:Edward Said
“Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.” FormTreeDisciplineRootsFundamentalsMetaphysicsTheoretical Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.” ThinkingHugeRootsPopsAdmirer Author:Kate Bush
“Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.” UsePainChildhoodEmotionalDrugAnxietyRootsResponseAlcoholAggressionSymptomsEmotional PainTraumatic ExperiencesLater In LifeDrug UseAnxiety Depression Author:Jed Diamond
“A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.” MadeBigsArtistGuyStepsCuttingProudRootsCleanWesternScaredHip HopEastMade ItHipsCanadaHopsStayingVillainCoastCornyLanesStay TrueEast CoastProud Of HimSuper VillainWestern Canada Author:Shane Bunting
“Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.” BodyEvilRacismRootsYeahHungerBuriedThirstIsmsMoney Is The Root Of All Evil Author:Ice Cube
“I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.” NeedsWritingBrainRootsAppealsUnderdogStockbrokers Author:Eric Bachmann
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.” PeopleFeelsHateStuffSpaceFansStageFrontsFitMusicianRootsPerformancesPopsGet UpPunkHate YouWeirdoStooges Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of many of our complaints: our lack of energy, our fatigue, our depression, why our immune systems are blown, why we lack enthusiasm and courage for life.” KnowsMeanSoulEnergyCausesLossLevelsRootsEnthusiasmComplaintsFatigueImmuneDiagnosisImmune SystemVisceralRoot Cause Author:Robert Moss
“I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.” WritingBookWholeGirlWealthRiversCrossesRootsSlaveNarrativeGatesDocumentariesIncidentsChairmanWealth Of KnowledgeSlave Girl Author:Jurnee Smollett
“I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question would establish my name, and the fact that I've written Roots, and the third question, at least no later than the fourth question would not be a question, so much as a statement, something like, "We understand that in America white people do such and such bad things to black people."” PeopleFirstsCountryFactsAmericaUsedNamesBlackWhiteWrittenRootsThirdsStatementsUsed To BeGuaranteesBad ThingsBlack PeopleFourthGuarantees That Author:Alex Haley
“You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.” KnowsSimplePleasureConversationRootsGood Things Author:Feist
“People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.” PeopleThinkingFeelsStoriesRootsHeavyThinker Author:Lizz Wright