"David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched."

-- David Nicholls

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“I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?”
“People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.”
“To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.”

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”
“Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
“So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field”
“I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.”
“I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.”

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