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David Nicholls
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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Eastleigh Town
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When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
David Nicholls
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
David Nicholls
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
David Nicholls
Be good. Do something good.
David Nicholls
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
David Nicholls
And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
David Nicholls
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
David Nicholls
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
David Nicholls
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.
David Nicholls
Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
David Nicholls
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
David Nicholls
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
David Nicholls
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
David Nicholls
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
David Nicholls
So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
David Nicholls
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
David Nicholls
Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
David Nicholls