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That breadth of activity placed him on both sides of the creative process over the course of his working life.\n\nHis screenplay work brought him particular recognition. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay on two occasions — once for A Man for All Seasons and once for Doctor Zhivago. Alongside those honours, he was awarded the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. These awards mark a career that moved between the stage and the screen, with Bolt drawing consistent attention from major industry bodies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\nBolt died on 20 February 1995 in Petersfield. His two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay — for Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons — remain the most concrete measure of how his work was received during his lifetime, with the latter also connecting back to the Tony Award he had won for the original stage production.","A Man for All Seasons is the work most closely associated with Robert Bolt — a play that earned him a Tony Award for Best Play and, in its screen version, an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.","robert-bolt",null,[],{"quotes":15,"pagination":110},[16,24,31,37,43,55,66,77,88,99],{"id":17,"quote_text":18,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":21,"source":22,"quote_tag":23,"commentary":12},3382232,"Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King’s command make it round? 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The quote captures the existential anxiety and the inevitability of mortality that permeates much of Bolt's work, particularly in his portrayal of Thomas More, a man who refused to compromise his conscience even in the face of death.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nThe hidden insight here is that death is not just an event at the end of life, but an omnipresent companion from birth. The quote reveals a paradox: that mortality is both proximate and perpetual, looming over every moment of our existence like a shadow. This tension between the immediacy of death and its constant presence underscores the human experience as one of precarious balance.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo apply this mindset today, consider adopting a \"temporal awareness\" in your decision-making and priorities. Recognize that every day is not just an opportunity but also a chance to confront the impermanence of life, which can foster a sense of urgency and clarity in pursuing your goals.",{"id":32,"quote_text":33,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":34,"source":35,"quote_tag":36,"commentary":12},3382194,"The law is not a ‘light’ for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":38,"quote_text":39,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":40,"source":41,"quote_tag":42,"commentary":12},3382179,"Morality’s not practical. Morality’s a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":44,"quote_text":45,"author_id":5,"source_id":46,"has_image":20,"author":47,"source":48,"quote_tag":49,"commentary":12},1109777,"The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.",4,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[50],{"id":51,"tag":52},4109963,{"id":53,"tag_name":54},355,"lying",{"id":56,"quote_text":57,"author_id":5,"source_id":46,"has_image":20,"author":58,"source":59,"quote_tag":60,"commentary":12},1109773,"If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[61],{"id":62,"tag":63},4109959,{"id":64,"tag_name":65},2265,"hero",{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":46,"has_image":20,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":12},1109769,"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[72],{"id":73,"tag":74},4109955,{"id":75,"tag_name":76},2955,"believe",{"id":78,"quote_text":79,"author_id":5,"source_id":46,"has_image":20,"author":80,"source":81,"quote_tag":82,"commentary":12},1109766,"Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[83],{"id":84,"tag":85},4109951,{"id":86,"tag_name":87},7556,"occupation",{"id":89,"quote_text":90,"author_id":5,"source_id":46,"has_image":20,"author":91,"source":92,"quote_tag":93,"commentary":12},1109762,"When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. 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