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Work hard at . . . something.

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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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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 made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
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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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If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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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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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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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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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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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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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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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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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
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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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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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