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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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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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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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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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