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" I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know. "
Louis Theroux
Vague
Good
Habits
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" As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man. "
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" There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified. "
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" It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community. "
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" L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here. "
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Many
Here
" The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields. "
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Getting
" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "
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Always
Painting
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" I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience. "
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Experience
You
" Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices. "
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Sometimes
You
" Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally. "
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Feel
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" You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'. "
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America
Great
I Am
" In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%. "
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People
Live
White
" We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story. "
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Beauty
Proud
People
" I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?' "
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Thinking
Live
I Can
" Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into. "
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Arguably
Always
Emotional
" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
Louis Theroux
Father
Writing
Much
" When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time. "
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Life
Create
Memories
" I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to. "
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Think
Career
People
" As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli. "
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I Am
Choice
Seeing
" Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices. "
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Keep
People
Animals
" Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be. "
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Why
Aspire
See
" The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough. "
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Too
Trouble
Know
" If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent. "
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Said
Answer
Me
" I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme. "
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Questions
Story
Back
" I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that. "
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Before
Get
Back
" Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme. "
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Experience
Time
First
" I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that. "
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Think
I Am
Home
" For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share. "
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Me
Everything
Fact
" I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person. "
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Person
Quite
Am
" Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world. "
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World
Trust
Struggle
" I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. "
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Got
Dream
Routine