Dalton Trumbo Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Running, Night, Average

  "Johnny Got His Gun". Book by Dalton Trumbo, September 3, 1939.

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Bombs, Sake

  Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.237, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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

  Dalton Trumbo

  Class, Working Class

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• What's so noble about being dead?

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  Noble

  Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.111, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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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

  Dalton Trumbo

  One Day, Contracts, Motion Pictures

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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

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

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  Feet, Air, Honest

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• Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

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  Goodbye, Good Life, Love Of My Life

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• 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.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Time, School, Joy

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