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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Vienna
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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