Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo
James Dalton Trumbowas an American screenwriter and novelist, who scripted films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committeein 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He was subsequently blacklisted by that industry. He continued working clandestinely, producing work under other authors' names. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards; the one for Roman Holidaywas given to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth9 December 1905
CityMontrose, CO
CountryUnited States of America
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them....
I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
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.
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.