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David Nicholls Quotes

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: November 30, 1966

Topics

Learning Men Writing Selfish Worry

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Men Believe Fate Blind Done Atheist

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

Admit Others Little Things Seen

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Perspective People Brain Political

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

Day Me Building Rest Remember House

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.

Work Power Great Light Day Law

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

End Remember Go Movies Watching

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Hope Struggle School I Am Step Go

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

Mother Relationship Child Believe

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

Love Animal Language Fish Own Worse

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

Future Live Peace Past Present

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

Brantley Gilbert

People Think Way Write Come Songs

Marvel is never more happy than when filmmakers start doing things they didn't expect. That's when they know they're in a good place.

Good Happy Start Doing Place Know

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