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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Capability
Build
Capacity
Helping
Iraqi
Navy

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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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If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
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What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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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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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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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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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Dont run before you can walk
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Work hard at . . . something.
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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
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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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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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