David Nicholls Quotes
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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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I hate big models.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.
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It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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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.
