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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

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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Decent
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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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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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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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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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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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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 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.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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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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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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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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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
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