"Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out."

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Source : "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

Julian Fellowes

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“Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left aloneâ€¦will furnish us with a number of very important usesâ€¦If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.”
“I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.”
“There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
“By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem to ask why any employer would hire someone at $8.23 if that person's services are only valued in the marketplace at, say, $5.00.”
“Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.”

Source : Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult
“Nathanial can show me how to better control the change, but even so, you never have to worry about me turning into a cat again. Didn't you know, I'm allergic to cats.”
“If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.”
“The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.”

Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.71, Anchor

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