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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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