Louis Theroux Quotes
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
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I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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'Alec is beautiful,' said Jill, bending down to kiss him.'Like a mushroom cloud!' scoffed Balkister.
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He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
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Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.
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The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration. Every day, new reports are added, provided by relatives, funeral homes, and the state agencies that issue official death certificates. The list contains 90 million reports.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Some things should remain private.
