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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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