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“Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.”
“To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.”
“Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.”
“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.”
“I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.”
“Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.”
“I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?”
“Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.”
“Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.”
“The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.”
“Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?”
“I just don't believe in generalisations.”
“I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.”
“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.”
“I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.”
“Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'”
“You know, I'm not a revolutionary.”
“I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.”
“Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.”
“It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”