David Nicholls Quotes - Page 6

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• It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

  David Nicholls

  Eight, Three, Four

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

  David Nicholls

  Kissing, Years, Sight

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.128, Hachette UK

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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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  Wife, Degrees, Facts

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

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  Character, Widows And Orphans, Expectations

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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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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  Men, Actors, Done

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

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  Silly, Writing, Fiction

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• This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

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  Cities, Edinburgh, Sound

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• If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Get Better, Dialogue

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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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  Mother, Eight, Years

  "Author Imagines 'One Day' For Connected People". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 19, 2010.

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• I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

  David Nicholls

  Sweden, Streets

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• I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

  David Nicholls

  Years, Twenties, Actors

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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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  Dirty, Thinking, Hollywood Films

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• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

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  Believe, Book, Reading

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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.

  David Nicholls

  Reading, Cutting, Numbers

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen" by David Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.

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  Mistake, School, Thinking

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.42, Villard

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• So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

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  Jobs, Hate, People

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• Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

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  Heart, People, Matter

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• I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

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  Thinking, Resorts, Consolation

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• I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

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  I Love Him, Men, Building

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• As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

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  Thinking, Important, Matter

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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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  Long, Moments, Been In Love

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• Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

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  Sorry, Tired, Bad Day

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• Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

  David Nicholls

  Wells

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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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  Somewhere Else, Want, Moments

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• Maybe we've grown out of each other.

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