David Nicholls Quotes
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
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I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
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Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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'Let's Get Harry' was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then 'Reasonable Doubts' was the second time, and there was a thing after that called 'Charlie Grace' that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner.
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I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
