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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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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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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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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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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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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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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.
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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 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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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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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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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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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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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