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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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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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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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'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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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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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