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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conscience driven rampant
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
characters substance
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
biological brought frivolous scientist trained
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
felt
It felt like there would be no end,
above apartments market supply
Supply is there, so if apartments are priced at market level, they are selling. If they're priced above market, they're not even getting shown.
biologists clearly developed einstein highly order physicists quite
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
people time
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
floor ground higher level today
Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s.
bubble buyers fewer negative prices seeing term using
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.
close
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.
leadership learned officers
I've learned more about leadership from these officers than I have in any class.
access amazing difficult million people
It's amazing we have 4 million people who access us over broadband, because we make it difficult to access us over broadband,
discover happens opera pretend
You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happens when you pretend to be someone else and you discover you are that someone else.