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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

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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 suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.
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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.
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I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.
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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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