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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Andrew Davies
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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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Andrew Wynford Davies
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I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.
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As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death.
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I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
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You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
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I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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