David Nicholls Quotes

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.

David Nicholls

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• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

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• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

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• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

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• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

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• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

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• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

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  Tamsin Greig
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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

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• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

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• Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

  

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• You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

  

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• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

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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.

  

  David Nicholls
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  • City