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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
Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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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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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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