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" One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them. "
Louis Theroux
Always
Proactive
Approach
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" I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. "
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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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" 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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" The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter. "
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" All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational. "
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" There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing. "
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Deepest
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" I try not to be too judgmental. "
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Try
Too
Judgmental
" 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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Live
White
" 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
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Seeing
" There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. "
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Religion
Monopoly
" 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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Feel
You
Interesting
" 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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Say
People
Me
" 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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Someone
" 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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Try
You
Need
" Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.' "
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Thinking
Think
People
" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
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Myself
Think
Easy
" I think I have a slight fear of intimacy. "
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I Think
Intimacy
Fear
" 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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Worry
Person
" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
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Writing
Much
" The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough. "
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Too
Trouble
Know
" 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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" 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 was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. "
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Idea
Being
" I just follow the subjects I'm interested in. "
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Just
Subjects
" Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt. "
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Money
Clothes
Care