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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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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 made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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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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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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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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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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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?
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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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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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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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Be good. Do something good.
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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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You must do what you enjoy.
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