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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.
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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Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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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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 am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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