"The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter."

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Source : "Olivier Dahan: 'I don't read the Grace of Monaco critics'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

Olivier Dahan

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“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”
“I happy am, if well with you.”
“My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel.”
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.”
“I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.”
“In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you're doing something when really you're not.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “The Sleeping Beauty Proposal”, p.63, Penguin
“The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a manâ€™s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.”
“What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.”

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