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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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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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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.
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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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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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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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