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Today. This bright new day that awaits us

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Awaits
Bright
Today

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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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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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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.
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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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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.
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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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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
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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.
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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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.
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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.
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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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