David Nicholls Quotes
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
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Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
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We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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What we want is for people to know that you can get affordable health care and most young Americans, they're not covered and the truth is they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill.
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I enjoy money.
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As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
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Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
