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" To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. "

Julian Fellowes

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

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

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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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" I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family. "

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

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

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

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