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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.
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
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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