 The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you`re obliged to act like one.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don`t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn`t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It`s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it`s something to live for and to die for.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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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.
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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.
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We`ll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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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.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don`t understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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I fought fire with oil.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he`s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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[1970, when accepting the Screen Writers Guild Laurel Award] The blacklist was a time of evil, and no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil. Caught in a situation that had passed beyond the control of mere individuals, each person reacted as his nature, his needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to. There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both sides. When you who are in your 40s or younger look back with curiosity on that dark time, as I think occasionally you should, it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. Some suffered less than others, some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things he did not want to say, to do things that he did not want to do, to deliver and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none of us - right, left, or center - emerged from that long nightmare without sin.
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[February 1940] If they say to us, "We must fight this war to preserve democracy", let us say to them, "There is no such thing as democracy in time of war. It is a lie, a deliberate deception to lead us to our own destruction. We will not die in order that our children may inherit a permanent military dictatorship".
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Trivia
In 1979, Trumbo`s unfinished novel "Night of the Aurochs" was published posthumously in 1979. A World War II novel told by Grieban, the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz death. Edited by Robert Kirsch, the novel initially is epistemologically narrated in the first person through letters written by Grieban before shifting to the third person. Grieban tries to link the ethical nature of the Nazi movement to the American Civil War, in which both Nazi Germany and the Confederate States of American fought to keep the races pure and separated. However, Grieban falls in love with a Jewish inmate of the death camp. Sympathetically rendered, Grieban is a broken man, living out the rest of his life in hiding, and dying uncared for.
The Journalism School of the University of Colorado built and dedicated the Dalton Trumbo Free Speech Fountain. According to the School of Journalism, the fountain "is named in honor of Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten...screenwriters and directors who were blacklisted and driven from their livelihoods for refusing to testify before the House of Un-American Activities Committee"
His screenplay for The Brave One (1956) won the Oscar for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1958. The screenplay was credited to Robert Rich who was not at the Academy Award ceremony and not a member of the Screen Writers Guild. It turned out that Rich was a nephew of the producers of the film, who denied the rumors that the screenplay actually had been written by a blacklisted screenwriter. After Otto Preminger and Kirk Douglas broke the blacklist in 1959 by hiring Trumbo, it was revealed that the screenplay actually have been written by him. Trumbo received his Oscar on May 2, 1975, shortly before his death, but the official screen credit was not changed until many years later.
Was finally honored with an Oscar for the screenplay of Roman Holiday (1953) in 1993, sixteen years after his death. Unable to write under his own name during the blacklist, Trumbo used "fronts" during the 1950s, the years in which, ironically, he wrote his best scripts. For Roman Holiday (1953), Trumbo used his friend Ian McLellan Hunter as a front. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (which had supported the black list) awarded Trumbo a belated Oscar for his other blacklist-era Academy Award winner, The Brave One (1956), in 1975, before his death.
Was a member of Delta Tau Delta International fraternity.
Writer-producer James Kevin McGuinness, a right-winger who was a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, testified that left-wing screenwriters did not inject propaganda into their movie scripts during World War II. "[The movie industry] profited from reverse lend-lease because during the [war] the Communist and Communist-inclined writers in the motion picture industry were given leave of absence to be patriotic. During that time...under my general supervision Dalton Trumbo wrote two magnificent patriotic scripts, A Guy Named Joe (1943) and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)"...".
Dalton Trumbo is portrayed in the off-Broadway play Trumbo, written by son Christopher Trumbo and adapted from Dalton Trumbo`s letters. While at New York`s Westside Theatre/Downstairs, Trumbo has been played by Nathan Lane, Eddie Izzard, Chris Cooper and F. Murray Abraham, among others.
Blacklisted in 1950s; one of the Hollywood Ten.
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