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

Julian Fellowes

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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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" 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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" For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. "

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" Most of us don't want to be outsiders. "

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" I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? "

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" When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. "

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

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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 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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" Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.' "

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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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" Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots. "

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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 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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" The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' "

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" The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. "

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" My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful. "

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

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" The '20s are a very interesting period to me. "

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" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

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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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" We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty. "

Julian Fellowes

" I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. "

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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 love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode. "

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" 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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" What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.' "

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

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