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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
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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 filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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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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