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" You learn more from the flops than from the hits. "
Theodore Bikel
More
Than
Flops
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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 am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel. "
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Am
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" I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote. "
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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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Survival
Support
Pride
" I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. "
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Granddaddy
Really
Prefer
" 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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Page
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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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Serious
Alive
Doubt
" 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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" 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
" I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "
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Created
Von
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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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Sense
Awe
Us
" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "
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Whose
Cause
Common
" 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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Human Being
Glory
Human
" 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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Who
Read
Word
" I always sang, I always acted, I always played. "
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Sang
Played
Always
" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "
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Humankind
Art
Captures
" 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really. "
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Within
Believe
Retirement
" I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. "
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I Can
Better
I Am
" 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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Beginning
You
Right
" Audiences are audiences. "
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Audiences
" I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. "
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World
Arts
General
" I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other. "
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Actor
Timing
Song
" There is no role I cannot play except a midget. "
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Play
Except
Midget
" 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
" 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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World
History
Art
" As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. "
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Artist
More
Interest
" One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way. "
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Thought
Terrorism
Stop
" I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "
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Family
Within
I Am
" 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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God
Us
Claim
" 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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God
Human
Obligation