Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBEis an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specializing in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth21 July 1934
conscience driven rampant
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
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Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s.
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Buyers became nervous. People are waiting to see what's going to happen.
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He's trying to use the strategy of Greenspan-speak - to temper homebuyers' euphoria,
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Despite some lingering trepidation due to mixed local, national and international economic conditions, the Manhattan housing market continued to improve.
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There was a negative swirl in the market; every pronouncement using the bubble term made buyers pause. We are not seeing prices fall; we are just seeing fewer sales.
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It's not a buyer's market, but we're close to equilibrium.
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
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Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
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I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
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It's amazing we have 4 million people who access us over broadband, because we make it difficult to access us over broadband,
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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.