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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Musician
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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'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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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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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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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 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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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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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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