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" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
Louis Theroux
Myself
Think
Easy
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" I try not to be too judgmental. "
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" I like eating food after it's gone off. "
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" 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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" Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events. "
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" It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists. "
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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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" 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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" I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. "
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" I think I have a slight fear of intimacy. "
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" The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs. "
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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
" When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear. "
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Hear
Time
" I don't think I'm afraid of anything. "
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Afraid
Anything
" 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
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Routine
" 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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Create
Memories
" All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational. "
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Basic
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" I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling. "
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World
I Am
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" There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions. "
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" Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org. "
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Time
Doing
Done
" I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way. "
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Me
Thought
People
" There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance. "
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" Some things should remain private. "
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Private
Some
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" I'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying. "
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Out
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Something
" Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally. "
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" 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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" I just follow the subjects I'm interested in. "
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Just
Subjects
" Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America. "
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America
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" Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not. "
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" 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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Everything
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