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

Julian Fellowes

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. "

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" One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell. "

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

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" You know, I'm not a revolutionary. "

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

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

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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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" 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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