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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. "
Theodore Bikel
Paper
Middle
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" I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. "
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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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" We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. "
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World
" I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "
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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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" I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. "
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" I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. "
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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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" I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "
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" 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really. "
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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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" '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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" Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? "
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Study
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" You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else. "
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Arts
Cannot
" I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. "
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Stand
Work
" 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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Country
Risk
Live
" 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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Pride
Me
Cultures
" All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. "
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Strong
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Justice
" No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. "
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Doubt
Being
" 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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Rights
Songs
My Life
" 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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Vanity
Direct
Done
" Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general. "
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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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Principles
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" Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? "
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Pride
" 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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You
Exist
" You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. "
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You
" Every actor wants to direct. "
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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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" It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "
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