Louis Theroux Quotes
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
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I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
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What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.
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Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
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They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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While consistently rooting against America, liberals have used a fictional event forged of their own hysteria - 'McCarthyism' - to prevent Americans from ever asking the simple question: Do liberals love their country?
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You can't just watch people type all day, and you can't really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.
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Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
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According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
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I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
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No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
