Louis Theroux Quotes
I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that.

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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.
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I think that women like to use different parts of their brain and their hands. And I think that cooking allows you to do that.
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that.