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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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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Audiences are audiences.
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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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