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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
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