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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Hope
Today
Everything
Love
Starts
Begins

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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.
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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
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Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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