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Dalton Trumbo

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Well, life isn't always what one likes.


— Dalton Trumbo


#roman-holiday- #life

I fought fire with oil.


— Dalton Trumbo


#fought #i #oil

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.


— Dalton Trumbo


#goes #having #kind #laughing #living

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.


— Dalton Trumbo


#any #comes #contract #day #going

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.


— Dalton Trumbo


#class #considered #get #i #never

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.


— Dalton Trumbo


#best picture #brothers #i #king #least

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.


— Dalton Trumbo


#citizen #democracy #dishonesty #enough #every

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.


— Dalton Trumbo


#i #i believe #i believe in #neither #none

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.


— Dalton Trumbo


#betray #by the people #chief #imposed #internal

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.


— Dalton Trumbo


#feather #happen #interesting #interesting thing #mattress






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Trumbo was a member of the Communist Party USA from 1943 until 1948. by Stanley Kubrick
Exodus 1960 (based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel of the same name)
The Last Sunset 1961
Lonely are the Brave 1962
The Sandpiper 1965
Hawaii 1966 (based on the novel by James Michener 1959)
The Fixer 1968
Johnny Got His Gun 1971 (also directed)
The Horsemen 1971
F. He donated his body to science.

Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one was originally given to a front writer and one was awarded to "Robert Rich" Trumbo's pseudonym. His son Christopher Trumbo wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist entitled Red White and Blacklisted (2003) produced in New York in 2003. James Dalton Trumbo (December 9 1905 – September 10 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

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