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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
David Nicholls
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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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Surprised
Food
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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Be good. Do something good.
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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.
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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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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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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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Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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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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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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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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