Distant Quote by Michael Winter Download Open image “I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.” — Michael Winter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distant Only Relationship Up War
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
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I have great appreciation for military spouses and it grows every time I visit another base. — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier. — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces. — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to take. In… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
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Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
To act is to act out of time. to act is to persuade time. to persuade is to act out of time. time is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“Love is a mystic path on which two distant souls meet and become one.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
