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• She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

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  People, Trying, Doomed

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• Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

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  Book, Years, Giving

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

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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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  Able, Should, Wells

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• I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.

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  Moving, Cynical, Touching

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• She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

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  Husband, Cake, Fans

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• I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

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  Missing, Would Be, Capable

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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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  Self, Long, One Day

  "In Conversation with David Nicholls". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.co.uk. December 11, 2012.

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• I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

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  Expectations, Great Expectations, Kind

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• As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

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  Morning, Lying, Mean

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

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• She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

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  Return, Made, Decent

  "Fictional character: Ian". "One Day", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

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  Long, Remember, Reader

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• Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

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  Fine, Wanted, Sensations

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Maybe we've grown out of each other.

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• Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

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  Sleepovers, Life Time, Tidy

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy

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  Navy, Helping, Capacity

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• Work hard at . . . something.

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  Hard Work, Hard

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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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  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 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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  Children, Home, Two

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• People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

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  Moving, People, Use

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.188, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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  Energy, Tape, Letters

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

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  Pride, Two Sides, Issues

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

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  Wells

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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.

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  Years, Twenties, Actors

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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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