David Nicholls Quotes
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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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.
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I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
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I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.
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The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."
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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.