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" I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. "
Julian Fellowes
Class
Seen
Unfair
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" I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared. "
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Early
" 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. "
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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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" We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. "
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First
Live
Nice
" I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. "
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Nice
Nothing
" The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. "
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You
Life
" I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off. "
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America
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" When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding. "
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Hard
People
Feeling
" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "
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Happiness
Than
Nothing
" In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people. "
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You
End
Care
" You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. "
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Child
Like
Giving
" 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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Accept
Boundaries
People
" 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 Am
Feel
Men
" I just don't believe in generalisations. "
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Believe
Just
" 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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Work
Today
Envy
" There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community. "
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Celebrity
Speak
Nonsense
" I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? "
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News
Fits
Watch
" I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode. "
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I Think
Think
Sex
" I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time. "
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Think
Best
Forward
" Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday. "
Julian Fellowes
Week
You
Holiday
" I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. "
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Think
Period
I Think
" A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. "
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Need
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" What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area. "
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Culture
Nice
Problems
" For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. "
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Directors
Most
Welcome
" If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. "
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More
Lucky
You
" The '20s are a very interesting period to me. "
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Period
Interesting
" My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. "
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Catholicism
Father
Marry
" 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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Father
Up
Parents
" The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us. "
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Great
Just
History