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" I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?' "
Louis Theroux
Thinking
Live
I Can
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" Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into. "
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" One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them. "
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" I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny. "
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" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "
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" I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. "
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Doing
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" I don't think I'm afraid of anything. "
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Afraid
Anything
" People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me. "
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Me
" I think I have a slight fear of intimacy. "
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" Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology. "
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World
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" A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife. "
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Wildlife
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" I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk. "
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You
Need
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Blue
Will
Empires
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" 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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People
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Me
Everything
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Too
Trouble
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People
Good