Julian Fellowes
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JEAN SMART It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. Bu... RICHARD CORLISS Developers have been coming to us and asking us to do something special for their buildings. LARRY PEARL JUDITH VIORST They have stealthily come into the market and monopolized the better buildings downtown under their ... JASON HUGHES Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not ... ALICE MCDERMOTT I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thou... BRITT ROBERTSON There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use... ZACK GREINKE PETER CAPALDI RYAN HOLIDAY ARIEL GORE RICHARD ROGERS WILLIAM JAMES HELEN KELLER Most of the playoff games I've seen this year have been decided by special teams. You look at the ga... DAVE BARR PHILIP JOHNSON BILL AYERS Those terrible rows over who inherits what are not restricted to novels, soap operas or the families... ANN KENT MARK WAID I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate... JACK WAGNER Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their o... ROBERT MANKOFF ANGELINA JOLIE MARY BARRA A confident person feels competent from the inside out. They use their talents to genuinely try to b... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The other ladies were all buying them to baste their chickens or turkeys. I was buying it to use on ... JOAN BYTHEWAY CATHERINE BELL TATIANA MASLANY HOWARD ZINN Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to rac... MICHAEL NESMITH GORE VIDAL It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's ... ENYA STEVE JOBS I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other... EDDIE HUANG With the help of other people, I give them their basic needs - toothbrushes, toothpaste and soap so ... GAIL SACCO ED SHEERAN MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers. JEANNE PHILLIPS MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ... CHAD SMITH DAVID LEVITHAN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD F. SCOTT FITZGERALD MARIO BATALI Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably hav... BRAD HOLLAND CHRIS EVANS MADELEINE M. KUNIN From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and deli... TINA ST. JOHN ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY LINDA MCMAHON You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN People would use each other in their works. The barriers were breaking down; everyone brought in spe... JAMES TENNEY COCO J. GINGER M. J. ROSE The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end. My mistake was not thro... ZELJKO OBRADOVIC Many of the folks coming will have a chance to volunteer for a full range of activities, including c... ERNEST COLLINS The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said f... FRANK GRILLO ALLAN MCNISH BARRY SANDERS CHAIM POTOK A lot of people are coming back with other members of their family, or their children. JIM TUTWILER CASSANDRA CLARE Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in ... FINN WITTROCK JEAN CHATZKY With children, you run the risk of their burning out or becoming bored with their routine. We don't ... CHRISTOPHER DOWNS It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE We get two or three guys a year coming in here with stories of how they got peppered by their huntin... JIM HOLLAND Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fight... MADCHEN AMICK CRAIG GROESCHEL I always felt that, when I saw Denzel or Viola do scenes in their past films or past projects, that ... JOVAN ADEPO STEPHEN CHBOSKY I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, gettin... DICK WOLF Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint... MIKE D A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the char... SUSAN MINOT AMBROSE BIERCE MARY-LOUISE PARKER In Porto, you have to eat francesinha. Translated, it means 'little French girl.' It's t... SARA SAMPAIO STEDMAN GRAHAM MEGAN FOX With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. U... ERIC DANE TOMMY SHAW MILO YIANNOPOULOS I didn't think much of it at the time ... [but while] other people are burning flags, burning buildi... STEPHEN HESS 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a hu... JOSH TRANK Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to pl... EMILY OSMENT Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing... JOHN LOGAN
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I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. JULIAN FELLOWES There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel... JULIAN FELLOWES I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors... JULIAN FELLOWES I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. JULIAN FELLOWES My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all. JULIAN FELLOWES Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous. JULIAN FELLOWES Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts. JULIAN FELLOWES Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool. JULIAN FELLOWES I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich ... JULIAN FELLOWES War makes early risers of us all. JULIAN FELLOWES It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? JULIAN FELLOWES I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contempora... JULIAN FELLOWES The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat... JULIAN FELLOWES I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get ... JULIAN FELLOWES I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to includ... JULIAN FELLOWES Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. JULIAN FELLOWES If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of cou... JULIAN FELLOWES I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given t... JULIAN FELLOWES Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbe... JULIAN FELLOWES Do you think he's the murderer?"JULIAN FELLOWES A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to t... JULIAN FELLOWES What does she do?"JULIAN FELLOWES Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaire... JULIAN FELLOWES I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast t... JULIAN FELLOWES When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as har... JULIAN FELLOWES Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving ... JULIAN FELLOWES Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make.Mor... JULIAN FELLOWES He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an act... JULIAN FELLOWES He really likes actors. He's not faking it, JULIAN FELLOWES What a difference a day makes, ... The Oscar gave me all these opportunities. It's a magic wand. JULIAN FELLOWES Tom and I wanted to make this film before I won the Oscar, but I couldn't get the backing to set it ... JULIAN FELLOWES He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you.... JULIAN FELLOWES Separate Lies JULIAN FELLOWES Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that ... JULIAN FELLOWES Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... ... JESSICA FELLOWES Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished. JESSICA FELLOWES Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like. JESSICA FELLOWES Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half ... JESSICA FELLOWES The French Quarter and Uptown, you see life basically as it was before the storm. It's eerie, becaus... MATT FELLOWES The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses duri... MATT FELLOWES The city is certainly broke and it doesn't have the citizens today or the businesses to afford to re... MATT FELLOWES I think that (auto) dealers prey on everybody. It's just that low- income folks are armed with less ... MATT FELLOWES It's really death by 1,000 cuts. It's just stunning hearing the stories of people trying to get ahea... MATT FELLOWES We're six months now after the storm, and there are still large swaths of [New Orleans] that look li... MATT FELLOWES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN ASSANGE But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, th... JULIAN BOND JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN LENNON JULIAN ASSANGE To rally every black sheep is my goal. JULIAN COPE Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it wo... JULIAN SANDS Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear brig... JULIAN SCHNABEL The only way to stay competitive is offer something the market doesn't have. AL JULIAN The employees are the ones who really make it work here. AL JULIAN We're now competing with eastern Europe, China, Korea, competing with Turkey and competing with plac... AL JULIAN The machines here have unique advantages over others in the market and you also see our prices are v... AL JULIAN It's killing us. They've told us to run business as usual, but it's not that simple. AL JULIAN JULIAN ASSANGE The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life. JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN BAGGINI Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money... JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN CASTRO Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks. JULIAN COPE JULIAN BAGGINI It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own ar... JULIAN SCHNABEL JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN CLARY JULIAN BARNES Quality is a proud and soaring thing. JESSICA JULIAN JULIAN BARNES Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. JULIAN JAYNES JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES JULIAN LENNON JULIAN ASSANGE And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolut... JULIAN BOND JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN CLARY JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we tal... JULIAN CASABLANCAS I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings br... PERCY JULIAN JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN CASTRO I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Penns... PERCY JULIAN JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BARNES JULIAN LENNON JULIAN ASSANGE Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision. JULIAN BOND JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a... JULIAN ROBERTSON JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BAGGINI Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody! JULIAN CASABLANCAS I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time.... JULIAN BOND JULIAN LENNON JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not s... JULIAN BARBOUR JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth.... JULIAN SANDS JULIAN CASTRO All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is fa... JULIAN SIMON The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depe... JULIAN SIMON The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning o... JULIAN SIMON The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death... JULIAN SIMON Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understa... JULIAN SIMON It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long ru... JULIAN SIMON Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavi... JULIAN SIMON Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience giv... JULIAN SIMON The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of ... JULIAN SIMON The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. JULIAN SIMON Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resour... JULIAN SIMON ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in r... JULIAN HUXLEY I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on thatJULIAN ALLEN So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mindJULIAN ALLEN I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not jus... JULIAN ALLEN So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, JULIAN ALLEN Right now we are inundated with stuff, JULIAN ALLEN JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN CASTRO Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquai... JULIAN SIMON The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of u... JULIAN SIMON Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induce... JULIAN SIMON In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh,... JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES JULIAN LENNON JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is... JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN BARNES Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we... JULIAN BOND JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BAGGINI My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k... JULIAN SCHNABEL JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured. JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w... JULIAN PETERSON JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BAGGINI I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI
People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out. 
People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so ... 
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a se... 
I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hon... 
Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming. 
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into ... 
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or a... 
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical ... 
If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you... 
I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h... 
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their t... 
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of thei... 
It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes e... 
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. 
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your p... 
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms ... 
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried... 
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... 
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different c... 
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherlan... 
It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. 
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves ... 
But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public o... 
Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of... 
Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘supp... 
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they h... 
He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�... 
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b... 
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use i... 
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything... 
I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a p... 
You have to think about the WWE as soap operas. 
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in ... 
The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twil... 
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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe... 
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Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... 
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The G... 
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Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color,... 
I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate t... 
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits aroun... 
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. 
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about ... 
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. 
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. 
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