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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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