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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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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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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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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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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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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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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.
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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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She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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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.
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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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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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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.
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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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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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