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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
David Nicholls
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.
David Nicholls
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
David Nicholls
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
David Nicholls
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
David Nicholls
And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
David Nicholls
you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.
David Nicholls
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
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Dont run before you can walk
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
David Nicholls
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
David Nicholls
So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
David Nicholls
Be good. Do something good.
David Nicholls
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
David Nicholls
Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
David Nicholls
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
David Nicholls