"The Long and the Short and the Tall……" — Timothy West
"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."
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19 Quotes by Timothy West
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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
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I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
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I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.
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In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict…
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No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough…
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them…
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The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
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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,…
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Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing,…
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Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group…
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The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite…
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There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly…
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