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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. "

Julian Fellowes

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" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "

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

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

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

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" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

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

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

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

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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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