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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
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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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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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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 learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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