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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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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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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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