If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to Yes, she ought to say No, directly.
-Jane Austen
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“We had to make sacrifices of some subplots and stuff, so you have to break it down. Maybe we’re a little bit light on Wickham.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exceptions even among the married couples), there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.
[We were] trying to create a sense of real mystery around that man. Not that you need to, really, with Alan playing it ‘cause he’d be mysterious playing a milkman. - Emma Thompson
Sense and Sensibility (2008) - Dan Stevens as Edward Ferrars