David Nicholls Quotes - Page 5

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• Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

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  Nice, Mean, Being Nice

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• In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

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  Mind, Speak

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• Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

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  Sex, Aunt, Cuddling

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.14, Hachette UK

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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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• These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

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  Morning, Night, These Days

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?

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  Just Love Me

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

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  Unhappiness, Easier, Jokes

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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.

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  Kissing, Years, Sight

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

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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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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Momentum

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• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

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  Night, Romance, Atmosphere

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• You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

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  Self Confidence, Giving, Would Be

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

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  Night, Phones, Years

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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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• A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

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  Laughing, Half, Arms

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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.

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  Eight, Three, Four

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

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• But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

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  Sex

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

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  Baby, Lonely, Jealous

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• And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

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  Perfect, Wake Up

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Dont run before you can walk

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  Running, Walks

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• Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

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  Ambition, Welcome, Graveyard

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

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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.

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  Writing, Get Better, Dialogue

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• Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

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  Fighting, Battle, Fighting Battles

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• Be good. Do something good.

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  Be Good

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