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" I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person. "
Louis Theroux
Person
Quite
Am
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" I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know. "
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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 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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" After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded. "
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" I don't think I'm afraid of anything. "
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Afraid
Anything
" I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback. "
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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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Human
" Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs! "
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Look
Body
Your Body
" 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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" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "
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Always
Painting
Teach
" 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
" 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
" I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know. "
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Think
Ahead
Know
" I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case. "
Louis Theroux
Enough
Strong
Argument
" 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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Good
Heroes
People
" There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life. "
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Life
Shame
Your
" When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband. "
Louis Theroux
You
Doing
Marriage
" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
Louis Theroux
Myself
Think
Easy
" 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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Think
You
Moral
" I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far. "
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New
Australia
" 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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Islam
Church
Fear
" 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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Show
Sometimes
You
" I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom. "
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Think
People
Way
" 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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Bad
Worry
Person
" I try not to be too judgmental. "
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Try
Too
Judgmental
" 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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Mind
Negotiation
Own
" All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational. "
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Irrational
Basic
Religions
" I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president. "
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President
Me
Scary
" 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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Glasses
Much