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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Eastleigh Town
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Life
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Be good. Do something good.
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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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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. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.
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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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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.
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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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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
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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 had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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.
David Nicholls
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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