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" My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. "

Julian Fellowes

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" I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. "

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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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" Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it. "

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" To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character. "

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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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" Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. "

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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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" I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give. "

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" I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father. "

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

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" You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years. "

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" If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. "

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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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" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

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" Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. "

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" Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything. "

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