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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Sense
Momentum
Keep
Pressure
Place
Coming
Book
Stop
Really
Movie
Always
Looking
Reading
Momentarily
Natural
Halt

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