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" I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth. "
Louis Theroux
Think
People
Good
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" I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person. "
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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 never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case. "
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" 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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" You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Get
Back
" As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well. "
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Well
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" The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields. "
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Fields
Getting
" 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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Negotiation
Own
" 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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People
Animals
" 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
" I don't think I'm afraid of anything. "
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Think
Afraid
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" It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists. "
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DNA
Journalists
" Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same. "
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Blue
Will
Empires
" 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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British
Many
Here
" My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks. "
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Guilty
Got
Lucky
" 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 think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do. "
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" It's difficult to describe the weirdness of speaking to a man who appears to be perfectly in control of his faculties, who can deliver off-the-cuff repartee, and yet who is actually utterly disconnected from who he is. "
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" I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around. "
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You
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" In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices. "
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" Some things should remain private. "
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Some
Some Things
" It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst. "
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Dealing
DNA