#lit

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. ↗

— Timothy West

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You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing. ↗

— Timothy West

#down #frightening #get #hunt #out

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#again #being #day #every #every day

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#every #involved #militarily #out #succeeded

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#everybody #everybody else #lead #like #lives

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was. ↗

— Kim Weston

#i #involved #little #photography #son

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection. ↗

— Edward Weston

#before #composition #consult #consulting #deduced

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#bottle #concentration #difficult #get #golf

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#access #always #been #build #direct

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #case #child #could #felt