I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'


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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
RALPH FIENNES
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic...
RALPH FIENNES
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve...
RALPH FIENNES
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and sud...
RALPH FIENNES
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlighten...
RALPH FIENNES
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
RALPH FIENNES
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISON
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and...
RALPH ELLISON
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
RALPH ELLISON
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ...
RALPH CUDWORTH
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at al...
RALPH CUDWORTH
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out...
RALPH CUDWORTH
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vig...
RALPH CUDWORTH
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than...
RALPH CHAPLIN
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
RALPH CHAPLIN
The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
RALPH CHAPLIN
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor soli...
RALPH CHAPLIN
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upo...
RALPH CHAPLIN
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
RALPH BUNCHE
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
RALPH BUNCHE
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dr...
RALPH BUNCHE
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
RALPH BUNCHE
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work ha...
RALPH BUNCHE