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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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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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