Julian Fellowes Quotes

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

  Julian Fellowes

  Mother, Weekend, Problem

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• Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

  Julian Fellowes

  Passion, Being In Love, Reality

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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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  Siege, Desperate, Lays

  "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.

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• Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

  Julian Fellowes

  Reality, False Hope, Harsh

  "Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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

  Julian Fellowes

  Life Is, Term, Lays

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• Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

  Julian Fellowes

  Vulgarity Is, Substitutes, Wit

  "Downton Abbey: Series Three. Episode 3". TV Series, 2010 - 2015.

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• If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

  Julian Fellowes

  Past, Harder, Ifs

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• I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

  Julian Fellowes

  Bird, Missing, Sorrow

  "Downton Abbey (Christmas at Downton Abbey)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010 - 2015.

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• The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

  Julian Fellowes

  Country, Icons, House

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• If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

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  Enjoy It While It Lasts, Lucky, Moments

  "Julian Fellowes: 'If you are lucky you have your moment'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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

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  Surprise, Delightful

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• Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

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  Three, Joining, Rooms

  Julian Fellowes (2006). “Snobs: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

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  Player, Games, Ridiculous

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• Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

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  Mean, Consideration, Worthy

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• Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

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  Pain, Believe, Artist

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• We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

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  Life, Advice, Understanding

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• Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

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  Harder

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• There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

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  Thinking, Drawing, Library

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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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  Thinking, Views, People

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• My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

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  Mother, Father, Catholicism

  "My family values". Interview with Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

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  Week, Maggie, Ends

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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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  Christmas, Character, Car

  "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

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

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  Drama, Light, Periods

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• School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

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  Work, School, Careers

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• One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

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  Real, People, Dating

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