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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Applied
Grades
University
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Life

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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
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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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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
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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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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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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
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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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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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Be good. Do something good.
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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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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
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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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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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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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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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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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