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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
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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