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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.
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Dont run before you can walk
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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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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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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
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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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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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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 suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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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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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
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You must do what you enjoy.
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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