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Favourite quote in the movie?


Mine is

"I went to interview one of the writers, and I went to his house, and inside the house, there was a crate, and a typewriter on top of the crate, and a picture of Roosevelt on the wall. And that was all there was in this house."

Not the exact thing, but pretty close.

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I loved almost all of the letters and speeches in the movie, with the possible exception of the overlong piece on masturbation, but his contentious correspondence with the phone company was right up there--albeit too long to quote in full. Ended with something like "best wishes to all in the thuggery."

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Show me the man who informs on friends who have harmed no one
and who thereafter earns money he could not have earned before
and I will show you not a decent citizen, not a patriot,
but a miserable scoundrel who will, if new pressures arise and the price is right,
betray not just his friends, but his country itself.

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I liked the statement Trumbo made that his conviction for Contempt of Congress was "just," because he did truly hold that Congress in contempt.

My real name is Jeff

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