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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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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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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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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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'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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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