David Nicholls Quotes - Page 6

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

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  Navy, Helping, Capacity

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

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  Long, Remember, Reader

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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