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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.' "
Julian Fellowes
Sometimes
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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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" 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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" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "
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" The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. "
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" You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. "
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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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" I just don't believe in generalisations. "
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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 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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" 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 love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode. "
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" If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. "
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