Louis Theroux Quotes
I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.
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Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.
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Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.
