Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.


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RALPH KINER
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
RALPH KINER
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
RALPH KINER
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact ...
RALPH KINER
If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
RALPH KINER
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
RALPH HODGSON
When the country is at war, you need to support the president.
RALPH HALL
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneur...
RALPH HALL
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less gover...
RALPH HALL
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That&#...
RALPH HALL
When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
RALPH HALL
I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL
When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
RALPH HALL
I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've alwa...
RALPH HALL
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember ...
RALPH HALL
I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help ...
RALPH HALL
I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, on...
RALPH GIBSON
One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am a...
RALPH GIBSON
First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally ...
RALPH GIBSON
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ...
RALPH FIENNES
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
RALPH FIENNES
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
RALPH FIENNES
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people ...
RALPH FIENNES
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
RALPH FIENNES
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES
So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and w...
RALPH FIENNES
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do a...
RALPH FIENNES
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about som...
RALPH FIENNES
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t...
RALPH FIENNES
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES
I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as ...
RALPH FIENNES
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession ...
RALPH FIENNES
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
RALPH FIENNES
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