"The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders."
"If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative."
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Source: The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back by Will Morley, www.bbc.com. October 21, 2014.
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