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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.'
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
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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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