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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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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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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Audiences are audiences.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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