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Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes

Birthname

AKA Julian Fellowes

Birthday August 17, 1949

Educated At Ampleforth College, Magdalene College, Webber Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art

Nationality United Kingdom, Australia N

Occupations Film Actor, Stage Actor, Film Director, Film Producer, Director

Spouse Emma Kitchener-Fellowes

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I don't dislike him. I just don't like him, which is quite different.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Six

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I know what it is to work now. To have a full day, to be tired in a good way.

— Sybil Crawley (Jessica Brown Findlay), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Seven

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No farmer is his own boss—he takes his orders from the sun and the snow and the wind and the rain.

— Daisy Mason (Sophie McShera), Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 6

Farmer boss Sun Snow Wind Rain

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You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself, but you can change it completely.

— John Bates (Brendan Coyle), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Three

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War breaks down barriers and when peacetime re-erects them, it's very easy to find oneself on the wrong side.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four

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The truth is neither here nor there. It's the look of the thing that matters.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Two

Truth Appearance

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Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It is only afterwards they share their doubts.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Eight

Lawyers confident Trial Doubts

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[to Thomas] War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don't.

— Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode One

War What Matters

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When tragedy strikes there is a abject of blame. And in the events of tragedy we usually blame ourselves. You are not to blame. No one is to blame.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 5

Tragedy Marriage

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Love is like riding or speaking French: if you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.

— Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare (Peter Egan), Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 8

Love Riding speaking french young

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Every mountain is 'unclimbable' until someone climbs it. So every ship is 'unsinkable' until it sinks.

— Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode One

Mountain Obstacles Determination

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One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Three

Death Foreigner newspaper

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I love you, Mr. Bates. I know it's not ladylike to say it, but I'm not a lady, and I don't pretend to be.

— Anna Smith (Joanne Froggatt), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Four

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Sometimes a hard sacrifice must be made for a future that's worth havin'.

— Tom Branson (Allen Leech), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Five

Sacrifice Future

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Nothing is as changeable as a young man's heart. Take hope--and warning--from that.

— Mrs. Patmore (Lesley Nicol), Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 2

tongue in cheek Warning heart

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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: You Americans never understand the importance of tradition.

Martha Levinson: Yes we do. We just don't give it power over us... history and tradition took Europe into a world war. Maybe you should think about letting go of its hand.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 1

Tradition Americans Europe world war

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If you must pay money, better to a doctor than an undertaker.

— Mrs. Patmore (Lesley Nicol), Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 2

Money doctor undertaker

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What the eye can't see the heart won't grieve over.

— Mrs. Patmore (Lesley Nicol), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Five

Eye heart Grief

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We can't have him assassinated. I suppose.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Seven

Assassination Wisdom

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I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four

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It's the job of grandmothers to interfere!

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 1

grandmothers interfere Meddlesome

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I know it's cliché, but I believe she died of a broken heart.

— Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens), Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Eight

cliche Broken Heart

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Politicians often can't recognize the changes that are inevitable.

— Branson (Allen Leech), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Six

political Reflection

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No one wants to kiss a girl in black.

— Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Two

kiss Girl black clothing

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Every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

— Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey, Series 5: Episode 2

Marriage tongue in cheek

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