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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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