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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
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Musician
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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.
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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 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 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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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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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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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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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