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Theodore Bikel Quotes

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: austrian
Birth: May 2, 1924 - July 21, 2015

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Time People You Arts Cannot Than

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

Challenge Beginning Me Three Playing

The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.

Heart Great Sleep Happy Me Cool

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

Culture Purpose Wait Artist Okay

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

Business Mind Doing You Need Same

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Reality Actor Shark Stage Opposite

I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to 'Well, I don't have to look good anymore.'

Jennifer Coolidge

Good Girl Character People Fat Look

Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.

Mathematics Body Creating Labor Kind

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

Chance You Opponent Give Make Your

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Great Man Fun Amazing Others Who

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

Life Day Words End Of The Day End

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

Austan Goolsbee

Me Weather Stupid Looking Saying

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear Care Done Things Well Exempt

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