Assaying Religion, People, Metal

A very brave woman on Al-Jazeera, "discussing" Islam. Watch this before the link is disabled.

http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null

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From Die Tageszeitung 28.06.2007, as posted on signandsight.com:

Filmmaker Werner Herzog, to whom the Munich Film Festival is currently dedicating a retrospective, talks in an interview about the quality he looks for an actor: "It's really only when someone is under extreme pressure, because for example they have to fight for their life, that you recognise what they're made of. It's similar with materials that physicists analyse. You have to expose a metal alloy to extreme pressure and extreme heat to find out about its composition. The same's true of people who're put to the test. Just like an ore that's assayed and refined in the forge."

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Quote of the day:

Sarah: I'll be an old maid before you.
Me: How is that possible? I'm 6 months older.