Bird Quote by Julian Fellowes

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

Julian Fellowes

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You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

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Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

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“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”

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If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

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We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

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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…

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“Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”

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“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”

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

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“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again,…

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I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very…

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I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

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And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

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