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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.

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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 determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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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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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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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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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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