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
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This made some buyers hesitate; there were people on the sidelines waiting to see what would happen,
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As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
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It's not that the rich have become frugal,
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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
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People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
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There's a disconnect between buyers and sellers. Sellers tend to be about at least six months behind the curve.
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I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
I see them as a trailblazer. They're really the first to do something of this magnitude, and for a first step, I think it's fantastic.
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The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
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The Olympics are perfect for this. Anything potentially that good is probably inevitable.
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Across the country downtowns have been reinvigorated and become destination points for 24-hour living.
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Speaking for me, it's just another one of those reporting requirements. It's not that big of a deal.
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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.