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" I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. "

Julian Fellowes

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" I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does. "

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" People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. "

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" There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. "

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" I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. "

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" I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance. "

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" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "

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" When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. "

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" I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. "

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" You know, I'm not a revolutionary. "

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" My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations. "

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" My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible. "

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" Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. "

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" In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people. "

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" I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. "

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