Robert Bolt
Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter. He is most known for writing Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two which won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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“Zhivago: It seems you bombed the wrong village.
Strelnikov: They always say that. And what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point made.
Zhivago: Your point. Their village.”
—Robert Bolt (1924–1995)
“I would be a winner because I was a loser! That’s right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that’s my secret. To make it in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.”
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“On the whole, I wish I’d stayed in Tunbridge Wells.”
—Robert Bolt (1924–1995)