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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. "

Julian Fellowes

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

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

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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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" 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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" Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. "

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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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" 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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" For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. "

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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 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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