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" When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear. "
Louis Theroux
Meet
Hear
Time
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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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" Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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
" We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story. "
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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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Doing
Done
" 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
" Some things should remain private. "
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Some
Some Things
" I like eating food after it's gone off. "
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After
Off
Like
" 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 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
" 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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Keep
People
Animals
" 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 think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
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Myself
Think
Easy
" 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. "
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Think
People
Good
" I just follow the subjects I'm interested in. "
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Interested
Just
Subjects
" 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
" 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 think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me. "
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Think
Sense
" 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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Feel
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" 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
" I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback. "
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Fear
Feel
Pub
" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
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Father
Writing
Much
" 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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Time
Deepest
Kind
" 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
" I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know. "
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Vague
Good
Habits