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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. "
Julian Fellowes
People
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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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" 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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" There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you. "
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" To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. "
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" I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode. "
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" What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two. "
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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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" 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 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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" Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. "
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" I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family. "
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Loved
" I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father. "
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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 English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. "
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Country
" I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. "
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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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" 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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" The '20s are a very interesting period to me. "
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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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Father
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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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Moment
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Wife
" Most of us don't want to be outsiders. "
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Most
" You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people. "
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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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" 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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Worthy