David Nicholls Quotes

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

David Nicholls

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterBookFindKnowThemeOut

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

TodayPeopleWorldThinkWeirdHigh

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Jennifer Weiner

GoodBestMenPeopleMeWriting

National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national 'I' in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change of lenses.

Jens Martin Skibsted

ChangeDebateClimate ChangeFocused

I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.

Sophia Amoruso

DressI CanT-ShirtSameEveryone

I have talked about the 'fractal organization'. Those smaller pieces should innovate and lead the rest of the organization. There will be parts that will be thinking about technologies of the future, and you need to nourish them.

Shiv Nadar

FutureOrganizationRestThinking

I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.

Rita Ora

ThinkYouLookOutfitToo MuchHard

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

Rory McIlroy

LoveHomeGreatMeWinningGolf

The work is done; it is what it is. You do the work, and you hope people like it, and if they don't, don't read it. I don't read reviews. I don't have social media, so I'll stay away from that; it's easy.

Mike Colter

WorkHopeSocial MediaPeopleMedia

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.

Mike McCarthy

StyleTeamOpinionAttentionPlay

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Mitski

GoodArtEgoThinkYouKind

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

Lisa Randall

ScienceResearchPictureDoingYou

It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

Jay Parini

TimeStrongPlaceSeriouslyAnything

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