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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Ambition

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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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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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Be good. Do something good.
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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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...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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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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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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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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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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Dont run before you can walk
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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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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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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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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