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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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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We have so many issues in this country to focus on that worry us, that I question why there is such focus on the simple right of people to love whom they will.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
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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.
