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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
Starts
Begins
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Today
Everything
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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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 realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
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If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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Dont run before you can walk
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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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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You must do what you enjoy.
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I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
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