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I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

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Julian Fellowes
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 17
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The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
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If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
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If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.
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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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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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Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”
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Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.
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Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.
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I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
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No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
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