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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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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 am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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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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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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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