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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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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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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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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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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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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 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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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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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'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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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