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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
Austria
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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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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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