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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.

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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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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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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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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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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